The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the tr…

We, who are dying, are doing better, than they, who will live. For Crete doesn't need householders, she needs madmen like us. These madmen make Crete immortal.

What good is life unless you give it away - unless you give it for a better world, even if you never see that world but have only carried your grain to the bui…