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

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.

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

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

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

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

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.