The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

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

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

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

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.