Occupation: Architect Birth: June 25, 1852 Death: June 10, 1926
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic..
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners..
Originality is going back to origins..
Copiers do not collaborate..
Everything comes from the great book of nature..
Form does not necessarily follow function.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature..
Tomorrow we will do beautiful things..
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin..
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature..
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator..
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions..
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 spiā¦.
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first..
In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential..
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature..
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions..
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God.
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers..
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments..
But man does not create...he discovers..