Browse Quotes

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Originality consists of returning to the origin.

God is in the details.

A house is a machine for living in.

Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function are one.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.

What we play is life.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky, imagine all the people living for today...

How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.

It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to get rid of the superfluous notes.

I have come into the world for no other purpose than to compose.

To copy the truth is a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Music is the space between the notes.

Imagination creates the image, and the image creates the deed.

The piano is my second self.