We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

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.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

[I'm] more German than Irish.

Obama is huge in the polls these days. His popularity is soaring. Even conservatives are coming around. 30 percent of them now believe Obama deserves a Green Card.

I think if Rusian and U.S. presidents meet each other, if they exchange views, then there will be a chance for our volatile relations to get better.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach.

Ultimately not one amongst us Will ever be denied that, The glimmer of a chance to shine.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.