True art should challenge the audience's perception. 真正的艺术应该挑战观众的认知。

——在遗嘱上签名，稍休后说几句话勉励各同志，1925年3月11日

I am now physically incapable of doing any of the things I used to enjoy, but I don’t miss them.

"Destroying things is much easier than making them."

Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.

Architecture is a human act that transforms nature into culture.