Architecture Is Inhabited Sculpture.

I Do Not Aspire To Be In Fashion. For What Is In Fashion, Goes Out Of Fashion If, On The Contrary, Your Work Is Contested Today, It Doesn't Matter. For When It Is Finally Understood, It Will Be For Eternity.

When You See A Fish You Don't Think Of Its Scales, Do You? You Think Of Its Speed, Its Floating, Flashing Body Seen Through The Water... If I Made Fins And Eyes And Scales, I Would Arrest Its Movement, Give A Pattern Or Shape Of Reality. I Want Just The Flash Of Its Spirit.

Nothing Grows Well In The Shade Of A Big Tree.

To See Far Is One Thing, Going There Is Another.

I Refused [to Study Under Rodin] Because Nothing Grows Under Large Trees.