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Antonio Gaudi

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Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme.

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Notable works: Gaudí

About Antonio Gaudi

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with most located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família church.

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Quotes by Antonio Gaudi

Form does not necessarily follow function

Doe

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Everything comes from the great book of nature.

Book

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Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Art

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Originality is going back to origins.

Creativity

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The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that…

Church

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The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

Atheism

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Originality is a return to the origin.

Creativity

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Knowing exactly whether a thing should be higher or lower, flatter or more curved, this is nothing more than a quality of…

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There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me.…

Church

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Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

Beautiful

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But man does not create...he discovers.

Creativity

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Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Creativity

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The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

God

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Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

Creativity

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The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

Book

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