Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.