Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

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.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.