Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Antonio Gaudi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi.
Last updated on November 13, 2024.
Antonio Gaudi

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect from Spain known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, sui generis style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his main work, the church of the Sagrada Família.

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.
There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated
Originality is a return to the origin.
But man does not create...he discovers.
Originality is going back to origins.
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
Everything comes from the great book of nature. — © Antonio Gaudi
Everything comes from the great book of nature.
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. — © Antonio Gaudi
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
Form does not necessarily follow function
Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.
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