Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

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

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

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

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

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

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.