A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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