“As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enj...”

“Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.”

“London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.”

“In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing,...”

“There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transfor...”

“I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.”

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

“Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interest...”

“We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.”

“In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and ne...”

“For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into Miss Universe there will be a lot of deep cuts, and theres a high chance it wont work.”

“For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into Miss Universe – there will be a lot of deep cuts, and there’s a high chance it won’t work.”

“South Park started as a little video Christmas card.”