Copiers do not collaborate.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

But man does not create...he discovers.

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Form does not necessarily follow function

True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.

Art is literacy of the heart.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. That means we need new jobs, good jobs, with rising incomes.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.