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.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

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

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

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.

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile