Art is a response to what life does to us.

自私性是一种自爱，怜悯心是一种他爱。一个人想要得到他人的爱，他自己首先应具备爱人之心。

"There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher."

建筑不仅仅是关于美学，而是关于人们如何使用和体验空间。

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

美不是目标，但它常常在路上出现。