Antonio Gaudi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Color #Architecture #Planes
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Fear #Law #Support
Copiers do not collaborate.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Copiers
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Lines #Building
But man does not create...he discovers.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Men #Doe
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Book #Great Book #Humans
There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Regret #Church #Generations
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Book #Effort #Great Book
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Artist #Needs #Monument
In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.
-- Antonio Gaudi
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Art #Doe
Originality is a return to the origin.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Return #Originality
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Firsts
Everything comes from the great book of nature.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Book #Great Book
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Originality
The expiatory church of La Sagrada FamÃlia is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Hands #People #Church
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Mean #Simplicity #Originality
Form does not necessarily follow function
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Doe #Form #Function
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Men #Media #Atheism
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
-- Antonio Gaudi

#Imagination #Simplicity #Firsts

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