Copiers do not collaborate.

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

Originality is a return to the origin.

Form does not necessarily follow function

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

But man does not create…he discovers.

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

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

One of the most beautiful things in life is work at ease

Language is the exact expression of thought and this is only achieved with one’s own language, which does it in a perfect way

Glory is light, light gives joy and joy is the joy of the spirit

You have to eat and sleep just enough to survive

Originality consists in the return to the origin; thus, original is that which returns to the simplicity of the first solutions

The most important requirement for an object to be considered beautiful is that it fulfills the purpose for which it was conceived

I never find anything in books, and when I find something, it’s wrong

My great friends are dead; I have no family, no clients, no fortune, nothing. So I can give myself totally to the Temple

Architecture is the first plastic art; Sculpture and painting need the first. All its excellence comes from light. Architecture is the arrangement of light

The artist must be a monk, not a brother

My ideas are of an indisputable logic; The only thing that makes me doubt is that they have not been applied previously

They asked me why I made columns inclined to what I answered: “For the same reason that the tired walker, when stopping, is propped up with the staff inclined, because if I put it up I would not rest

Beauty is the radiance of Truth

The architect of the future will be based on the imitation of nature, because it is the most rational, durable and economic way of all methods