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

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

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?

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

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

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.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.