“If it wasn't for Durham Cathedral I probably wouldn't be an architect....” — George Clarke Quote

“If it wasn't for Durham Cathedral I probably wouldn't be an architect. I was taken there when I was about seven and I couldn't believe that someone built it 1,000 years ago.”

“I don't want to get into any politics about it but I just think if we are a nation that is all about expensive houses and affordable houses and not caring about people who are genuinely in need, then everything starts to fall apart.”

“I've got a place in Ibiza and that feels like home from home. But I love to go to far-flung, adventurous places.”

“Rather than making minor repairs to a few small leaks in the roof, the Architect of the Capitol is proposing to tear down the entire roof and replace it with something called a new vegetative roofing system. We shouldn't be wasting precious taxpayer money on a new, state-of-the-art vegetative roofing system.”

“If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.”

“The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.”