Be kind to one another, because most of us are fighting a hard battle.
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
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.
War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.
Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.
I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill. . . But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.
If you come on my property, I've got you from the second that you enter on. There's little lasers my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there's no way to sneak up on me. And I've got a loud dog.