Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.
Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.
Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat. , Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe. ]
The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.