Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.