Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudi
Antoni Gaudí i Cornetwas a Spanish Catalan architect from Reus and the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect an individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth25 June 1852
CityReus, Spain
CountrySpain
continues creation media
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
regret church generations
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
lines building corners
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
book effort great-book
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
fear law support
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
men media atheism
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.
firsts written
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
return originality
Originality is a return to the origin.
doe function form
Form does not necessarily follow function
imagination simplicity firsts
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
copiers
Copiers do not collaborate.
originality
Originality is going back to origins.
originality
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.