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.

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

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

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.

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

A room is not a room without natural light.