Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."

"Less is more."

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

"True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life."