I'm Going To Design The Container And

Your Work May Be Great And Not Make Its Way Into The Big Picture... Like Van Gogh... So Who's To Say What's Good And Bad?

When People Condemn Me For Designing Iconic Buildings In Cities And Not Having An Idea What A City Is, They Haven't Done Their Homework. I Started In Urban Design And City Planning. It's Just That When I Got Out Of School There Wasn't Much Of A Market For That. There Still Isn't.

Creativity Is About Play And A Kind Of Willingness To Go With Your Intuition. It's Crucial To An Artist. If You Know Where You Are Going And What You Are Going To Do, Why Do It? I Think I Learned That From The Artists, From My Grandmother, From All The Creative People I've Spent Time With Over The Years.

Some People May Say My Curved Panels Look Like Sails. Well, I Am A Sailor, So I Guess I Probably Do Use That Metaphor In My Work - Though Not Consciously.

There Are Places That Are So Designed They're Unlivable.