The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

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.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

By law, all buildings should be white.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

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

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