Bernard Tschumi Quotes

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I love architecture.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.