The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient.
Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.
You can run I will chase you. You can hide I will find you. We're gonna fight and I'm gonna hurt you.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.