Gaudi's Quotes

#1. Copiers do not collaborate.

Antoni Gaudi

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

Antonio Gaudi

#3. Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Antoni Gaudi

#4. Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

Antonio Gaudi

#5. I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt ... I can't compete with that stuff.

Matt Groening

#6. One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

Robert Hughes

#7. On its most basic level, imperialism was all about building railroads.

Robert Gaudi

#8. Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Samuel Butler

#9. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Antoni Gaudi

#10. Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

Grant Achatz

#11. Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

Antoni Gaudi

#12. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Antoni Gaudi

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

Antonio Gaudi

#14. I would've never dreamt that my skydive would trigger such gushing enthusiasm. I still don't really understand exactly what I've accomplished, although I always suspected it would be a truly spectacular moment.

Felix Baumgartner

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

Antonio Gaudi

#16. The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.

Pauline Neville-Jones

#17. You gotta follow your passion in life

Kailin Gow

#18. Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Antoni Gaudi

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

Antonio Gaudi

#20. If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

Robin Sharma

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

Antonio Gaudi

#22. The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

Antoni Gaudi

#23. I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

Meryl Streep

#24. I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

Karen Traviss

#25. Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Antoni Gaudi

#26. 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

Antonio Gaudi

#27. In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

Antoni Gaudi

#28. Originality is going back to origins.

Antonio Gaudi

#29. Originality is a return to the origin.

Antonio Gaudi

#30. What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

Kanye West

#31. But man does not create ... he discovers.

Antonio Gaudi

#32. The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

Antoni Gaudi

#33. If you think of your bad behavior as a lifestyle choice, as in "being yourself" or "just being honest," you might be ignoring the cost to your personal energy.

Scott Adams

#34. Everything comes from the great book of nature.

Antonio Gaudi

#35. There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Antoni Gaudi

#36. They also - finally - let me quit Smart Aid. "Feeling better" became my new job.

Ransom Riggs

#37. Form does not necessarily follow function

Antonio Gaudi

#38. Virginians want you to work across the aisle.

Tim Kaine

#39. But we know in the South that the real purpose of manners is to make life easier for everyone, easier both to keep to oneself and to avoid the uneasy commerce of offense and even insult. Either one shakes hands with someone or one ignores him or one kills him. What else is there?

Walker Percy

#40. I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

Oscar Niemeyer