Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Form does not necessarily follow function

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

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

But man does not create...he discovers.

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

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Copiers do not collaborate.

There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

Everything comes from the great book of nature.