“It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.”

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle.

he architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats.

I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button

The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

How they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

How these people dressed, built their houses,

The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice.

I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. T

Thus he loves the house and hates art.

The house has to serve comfort

Let’s keep our chins up and our knees down – we’re on the victory side.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line.

The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.

I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.