61 Quotes by Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

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

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.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.