“Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.”

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

The house thinks of the present.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him.

The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.

he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.

I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button

The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

How these people dressed, built their houses,

We are on God’s side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It’s a war between God and the devil.

The majority never has right on its side.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.