The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.