The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.