A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.