Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I am but an architectural composer.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I call architecture frozen music.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.