Quotes from Hugh Newell Jacobsen

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.