Quotes About Gaudi

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

Gaudi was surrounded by the rich folk of Catalonia, I've seen a picture of him with people wearing elegant hats and drinking wine. But that's not like me - I'm on my own.

Gaudi's lurid and beautiful buildings in Barcelona are Camp not only because of their style but because they reveal — most notably in the Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia — the ambition on the part of one man to do what it takes a generation, a whole culture to accomplish.

the roof deck was protected by towering Gaudí chimneys that resembled futuristic chess pieces—helmeted sentinels that allegedly had so impressed filmmaker George Lucas that he'd used them as models for his menacing storm troopers in Star Wars.

There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudí was once quoted as saying

There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudi was once quoted as saying, and indeed, there were very few straight lines seen his work either.

Gaudí se dedica a recoger los desechos de fábricas y talleres para recubrir las obras con eso que él llama trencadís, un mosaico mal ensamblado de piezas rotas y restos desechados de cerámica, vidrio y porcelana.