Henry Mercer (1856-1930) was an artist, craftsperson, architect, a devotee of the Arts + Crafts movement, and, either a genius or a madman depending on your penchant for maximalist uses of concret...
"Anything worth doing is worth obsessing over." That's a 'Peter-ism', as we call them, or one of the eminently quotable one-liners attributed to my dad's kid brother, Peter, who isn't a kid anymor...