However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

Nature did all things well

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.