Top 15 Le Corbusier Quotes

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

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

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

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

The house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on.

What modern man wants is a monk's cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look at the stars.
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Truth to tell, the modern man is bored to tears in his home; so he goes to his club. The modern woman is bored outside her boudoir; she goes to tea-parties. The modern man and woman are bored at home; they go to night-clubs.
But lesser folk who have no clubs gather together in the evening under the chandelier and hardly dare to walk through the labyrinth of their furniture which takes up the whole room and is all their fortune and their pride.

When I flew over the Atlas Mountains in a plane, I realized that their formation-through erosion, geological dramas, the action of winds-was completely independent of our moral anxieties; man is in a kind of cyclone; he builds solid houses to protect and shelter his heart. Outside, nature is nothing but indifference, even terror.

L'architecture n'a rien à voir avec les «styles». Les Louis XV, XVI, XIV ou le Gothique, sont à l'architecture ce qu'est une plume sur la tête d'une femme; c'est parfois joli, mais pas toujours et rien de plus.

Things are not revolutionalized by making revolutions, The real revolution lies in the solution of existing problems.

"A ceux qui, absorbés maintenant dans le problème de "la machine à habiter", déclaraient que "l'architecture c'est servir", nous avons répondu: "L'architecture c'est émouvoir". Et nous avons été taxé de "poète", avec dédain"

A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.

An object placed in the center of a room often spoils the room, for it hinders you from standing in the middle