Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Writing is like life: it goes on.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

If we obey God, we will be happy.

Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.

Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.

I love 'Mad Men' & 'Nip Tuck.'

I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.