Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

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

Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

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

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.