Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

I call architecture frozen music.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere