Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
Well, demonization itself can help. . . to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.