I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.