All Architects Want To Live Beyond Their

How Does An Artist Know When The Line That He Just Painted Is Good Or Not Good? That's The Catch. De Kooning Was The Greatest Of My Contemporaries In Art, And He Knew When He'd Done A Good Line. When He Didn't, He Threw It Away. I Wish I'd Thrown Away Some Of Mine.

I Guess I Can't Be A Great Architect. Great Architects Have A Recognizable Style. But If Every Building I Did Were The Same, It Would Be Pretty Boring.

Processionalism Is Primary - How You Get From One Place To Another, The Relationships And Effects Of Spaces As You Move About In Them. That's Worked Out Awfully Well In The State Theater. I'm A 'straight-in' Man Myself; I'm Too Nervous, I Like To Know Where I Am. I Also Like To Know Where I'm Going.

From The Very Fact The Universe Is On The Whole Orderly, In A Manner Comprehensible To Our Intellect, Is Evidence That We And It Were Fashioned By A Common Intelligence.

To Sum Up The State Of Architecture In America: Ninety Percent Of The Buildings We Live In And Around Aren't Architecture. No, That's Not Right - 98 Percent.