painting

Le Corbusier

painting by Boris Chaliapin

painting by Boris Chaliapin

Notable quotes

“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”
— The New York Times [obituary] (1965-08-28)
“Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.”
— You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.”
— When the Cathedrals Were White (1947)
“My own duty and my aim is to try and raise people out of their misery, away from catastrophe; to provide them with happiness, with a contented existence, with harmony. My own goal is to establish or re-establish harmony between people and their environment.”
— Le Corbusier: Architect, Painter, Poet by Jean Jenger (1996).

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