Le Corbusier Quotes

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

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

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.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

I call architecture frozen music.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Buildings are forms of performances.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

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

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

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.