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How can one forget joy? I believe that a work of art reaches perfection when it conveys silent joy and serenity.

— 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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