Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

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

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

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.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."