When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.

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

Life is more important than architecture.

Surprise is key in all art.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.