Form does not necessarily follow function

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

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

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

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

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

Copiers do not collaborate.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

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

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

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

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