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.

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.

A house is a machine for living in.

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

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

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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