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Le Corbusier Inspirational Quotes (29)

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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
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The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.
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My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
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Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
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Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
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Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
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By law, all buildings should be white.
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You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
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The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
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The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.
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Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.
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Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and that hierarchy.
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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
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The city that has speed has success.
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When does a building actually become a built?
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
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