Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
I lost many friendships because of my wealth. When my friends met me, they had an agenda in mind. Just because I had money, they expected one thing or the other from me, which they didn't before.
The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."
Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.
Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
The material dictates the approach.
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
