You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building or architecture is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness patriotism and heroism by our troops our National Guard and Reserves.

Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

Well it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins too but I hadn't noticed the parallel before two characters forced to share a bed reluctantly.

I've created directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning so 'Born This Way ' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

On the surface rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.