Luis Barragan Quotes

My designs are free-flowing in their approach, and I want to create an ambience of warmth and tranquility.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

All I want is to have my peace of mind...

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Peace surely is a good reason, yes. But there are other reasons too.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

How can I have peace? Not by talking about peace, But by walking Along the road of peace.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

If you like music you like silence actually.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

There is nothing more powerful than peace.

You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.