61 Quotes by Le Corbusier

By law, all buildings should be white.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

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

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

When does a building actually become a built?

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

The "styles" are a lie.