It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

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

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.