A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

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.

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

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

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

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.