I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.

Next quotes

• Luis Barragan:

  Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

• Luis Barragan:

  Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

• Luis Barragan:

  It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is

• Luis Barragan:

  A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

• Luis Barragan:

  I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

• Luis Barragan:

  Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosp

• Luis Barragan:

  My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

• Stephen Gardiner:

  Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

• Stephen Gardiner:

  Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

• Stephen Gardiner:

  Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.