Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.