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In the gardens and homes designed by me, I have always endeavored to allow for the interior placid murmur of silence, and in my fountains, silence sings.

— Luis Barragán Acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1980)

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Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake.

Contemporary Architects (1980)

The certainty of death is the spring of action and therefore of life, and in the implicit religious element in the work of art, life triumphs over death.

Acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1980)

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1980)

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1980)

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

Acceptance of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1980)

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

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