Antoni Gaudí
Visionary architect of Sagrada Família
Most quoted
"The architect of the future will be a poet, a sculptor, a painter, a musician, a philosopher, a mathematician, a physicist, a chemist, a botanist, a zoologist, a geologist, a meteorologist, a historian, a sociologist, an economist, a politician, a psychologist, a theologian, an artist, a craftsman, a builder, an engineer, a scientist, a humanist, a visionary, a dreamer, a prophet, a saint."
— from Various biographies
"The architect must be a poet, a philosopher, a musician, a painter, a sculptor, a writer, a historian, a mathematician, a physicist, a chemist, a botanist, a zoologist, a geologist, a cosmologist, a theologian, a mystic, a saint."
— from Various writings and interviews
"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."
— from Letter, 1915
All quotes by Antoni Gaudí (360)
The architect of the future will build imitating Nature, for it is the most rational, long-lasting and economical of all methods.
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
The Temple of the 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.
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.
The light achieves harmony by means of a combination of all the colors of the rainbow.
Everything comes from the great book of nature; the works of men are already in that book.
Beauty is the radiance of truth.
The ornamentation has been conceived for the glory of God, and for the clarity of the dogma.
The parabolic arch is not a whim, it is a constructive element of great resistance.
The hyperboloid, the hyperbolic paraboloid, the helicoid, and the conoid are surfaces that I have used in my constructions.
The structural reason and the formal reason must be conjugated.
I am a geometrician, that is to say, a synthesizer.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the word... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
The virtue of architectural beauty is that it combines the useful with the pleasant.
In order for a work of art to be good, it must have been preceded by a long period of meditation.
The word 'impossible' does not exist in my dictionary.
I have all the time in the world. My client, God, is not in a hurry.
The tree that is beside the running water is fresh and fruitful.
Contemporaries of Antoni Gaudí
Other Architectures born within 50 years of Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926).