Architect quotes

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

A few years later I discovered that when making a Moebius strip one could orientate it in different directions.

And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is able to launch us on astral flights which soar into unknown and still uncharted regions of the imagination.

By a mathematical approach to art, it is hardly necessary to say I do not mean any fanciful ideas for turning out art by some ingenious system of ready-reckoning with the aid of mathematical formulas.

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

I tried to make something that would turn in the air and would give the impression of spiralling, and trying over an over again with the paper I came to a shape like this, a shape with only one surface which has all the characteristics of the Moebius strip.

In one of these recently conquered domains, the artist is now free to exploit the untapped resources of that vast new field of inspiration.