Antonio Gaudi quotes:

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

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

Originality is a return to the origin.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Copiers do not collaborate.

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

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

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

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

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

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.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Form does not necessarily follow function

Originality is going back to origins.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. 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

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

But man does not create...he discovers.

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

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

Everything comes from the great book of nature.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.