Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

Eternal life is knowing God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ!

Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon

Their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue.

One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them.

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

If only people were trees… I might like them better.

No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.