It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

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

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.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?