On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
If it sells, it's art.
Space is the breath of art.
I love crazy, gaudy bling.
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
One great building does not make a great city.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
L'architecture transforme un état de nature, en état de culture.
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
