There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries too. Wright lived into his 90s and one of his most famous buildings the Guggenheim Museum in New York was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

When I was in high school my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

One does not need buildings money power or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing and that is the place to train.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture not only in advanced technology allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture as long as they are done properly.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

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

In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Buildings should serve people not the other way around.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings why sit on the beach?

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique poetic products of the heart.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.