16 Antonio Gaudi Quotes

Antonio Gaudi quotes

1. I can survive anything except my bad temper. [1]

2. The architect of the future will build imitating Nature, for it is the most rational, long-lasting and economical of all methods.

3. The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create...he discovers. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. Copiers do not collaborate. Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

4. The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature; the other books are taken from it, and in them there are the mistakes and misinterpretations of men.

1. Everything comes from the great book of nature.

2. Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

3. Originality is going back to origins.

4. The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família 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.

5. The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

6. Originality is a return to the origin.

7. Knowing exactly whether a thing should be higher or lower, flatter or more curved, this is nothing more than a quality of clearsightedness, and I fortunately can see things clearly. I cannot help it.

8. Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

9. But man does not create...he discovers.

10. Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

11. Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

12. 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