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.

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

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

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.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Arise in the power of might.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security then the state of love exists.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.

Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep