Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.