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
mean simplicity originality
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
color architecture planes
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
art doe ifs
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
hands people church
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.
men doe incessantly
But man does not create...he discovers.
beautiful tomorrow beautiful-things
Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.
men lines straight-lines
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God
artist needs monument
Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.
book effort great-book
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
lines building corners
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
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