Luis Barragan Quotes

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• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
• Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
• I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
• My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
• Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.
• Art is made by the alone for the alone.
• A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy
• In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is…
• Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
• The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the…
• Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
• Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun…
• I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been…
• All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for…
• Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.
• In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of…
• It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered…

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