A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
‘Men have forgotten this truth,’ said the fox. ‘But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.’.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
Les pierres du chantier ne sont en vrac qu’en apparence, s’il est, perdu dans le chantier, un homme, serait-il seul, qui pense cathédrale.
