“When we are no longer children we are already dead”

“Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.”

“Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.”

“Les choses ne sont pas difficiles à faire, ce qui est difficile c'est de nous mettre en état de les faire.”

“They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.”

“Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.”

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”