Gaudi Quotes

“Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.”

“On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.”

“The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.”

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”

“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”

“Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.”

“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.”

“Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.”

“Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.”