I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep

“Architecture is frozen music”

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

“The shortest distance between two points is under construction.”

“Engineering is controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.”

“Clothes make the man, naked people have no influence in society.”

“Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.”

“The Key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way-things I had no words for.”

“You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.”

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves—to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.”

“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.”

“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”

“Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.”

“No amount of skilful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

“Art? You just do it.”

“As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.”

“Design is like gravity – the force that holds it all together.”

“To draw is to make a shape and movement in time.”

“Colour is fun,colour is just plain gorgeous, a gourmet meal for the eye, the window of the soul.”

“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. “

“Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. “

“Architecture begins where engineering ends. “

“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”

“A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It’s not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.”

“I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. “

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”

“The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.”

“The architect must be a prophet… a prophet in the true sense of the term… if he can’t see at least ten years ahead don’t call him an architect.”

“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”

“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”

“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”

“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. – so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings”

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

“Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

“Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.”

“Good architecture lets nature in.”

“Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.”

“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”

“The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.”

“The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams.”

“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”

“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”

“I have found among my papers a sheet… in which I call architecture frozen music.”

“There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through”

“Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

“Less is more.”

“God is in the details”

“A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.”

“When we build, let us think that we build forever”

“God is in the details”

“The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts”

“An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site”

“I don’t believe in morality in architecture”

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness”

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.