A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.

Least he's committed," I offered. "Or needs to be.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is greater than death.

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.