Every building must have... its own soul.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

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.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

The room is the beginning of architecture.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

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.