Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
I don't have time to hate people who hate me, because I'm too busy loving people who love me.
有些崇拜我的人常常说我的头脑几乎有一只篮子那么大,不过他们不肯说出这只篮子的尺寸。
真正的艺术家宁愿让妻子挨饿、孩子赤脚、七十岁的老母为生计操劳,也不愿做艺术以外的工作。
The best art comes from personal experience.