The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.
You are a guest of nature – behave.
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.
We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.
Our real illiteracy is our inability to create.
If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.
Visual pollution is more poisonous than any other pollution because it kills the soul.
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful...
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.
Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
The straight line is ungodly.
Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.
There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.
If man walks in nature’s midst, then he is nature’s guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest.
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.