Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

A house is a machine for living in.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

[To] Immediately...turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God...practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.

We are not defined by the things we accumulate, but by the memories we impart.

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick

I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.