Le Corbusier Quotes

The New York Times [obituary] (1965-08-28)
Attributed from posthumous publications

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)
Context: Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959
Context: The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)

When the Cathedrals Were White http://books.google.com/books?id=TzwVAAAAMAAJ&q="A+hundred+times+I+have+thought+New+York+is+a+catastrophe+and+fifty+times+it+is+a+beautiful+catastrophe"#search_anchor (1947)
Attributed from posthumous publications

"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959

Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.
Le Corbusier's reply upon learning that the housing project he had designed at Pessac had been altered by its inhabitants, quoted by Philippe Boudon, Lived-In Architecture: Pessac Revisited (1969) [trans. Gerald Onn]
Attributed from posthumous publications

"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959

Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)

"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959

That is Architecture. Art enters in.
Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)

Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)

Le Corbusier: Architect, Painter, Poet by Jean Jenger (1996).
Attributed from posthumous publications