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.

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

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

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.

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