Quotes from Le Corbusier

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

The city that has speed has success.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

A house is a machine for living in.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan — that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

A house is a machine for living in.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.