Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.