Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

If we find a mound six feet long and three feet wide in the forests, formed into a pyramid, shaped by a shovel, we become serious and something says, “someone lies buried here”... Now that is architecture.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.