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.

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.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

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.

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

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