Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

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.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Every song is different.

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

You can shave my head if you need to; it doesn't bother me.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body