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.

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.

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

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.