Le Corbusier Beautiful Quotations

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

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.

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.

The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh.