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

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

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

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

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

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete... This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.