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Art is made by the alone for the alone.

— Luis Barragán

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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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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

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A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.

George MacDonald The Fantastic Imagination (1893)

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

José Ortega y Gasset The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

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