Le Corbusier quotes

" The "styles" are a lie. " # Style

" A house is a machine for living in. " # Home # Machinery # Life and Living

" Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. " # Sleep # Death and Dying # Love

" Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. " # Modern and Modernism # Style # Present

" 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; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician. " # America # Architecture # Music

" Une maison est une machine-à-habiter. " # Education # Habit # Machinery

" You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful." That is Architecture. Art enters in. " # Architecture # Arts and Artists # Happiness

" It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. " # Architecture # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Arts and Artists

" Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. " # Cities and City Life # Modern and Modernism # Planning

" The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals. " # Cities and City Life # Language # Planning