How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

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 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.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

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.'

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

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.