Gaudí
was a great creator who converted whatever he touched into art.
(Arnau Puig)
Gaudí's buildings have transformed Barcelona [...]
and have returned to it the tumultuous and animated aspect
that most of the so-called modern constructions had taken from it.
(Guillaume Apollinaire, poetry, 1916)
Gaudí was very precise in hislanguage;
and to the clarity of the conept he added the precision of the word.
(IsidrePuig-Boada, architect, 1976)
Gaudí was, above all, an architect, and for him the profession
was not only a way of living or a concrate obligation but rather a task felt
since childhood and developed through his career,
until death suddenly took him at seventy-four.
(Joan Bassegoda i Nonell, architect, 1973)
In the continuous evolution of modern architecture,
Gaudí's final creations may have more value and better appreciated.
Then, his important role as forerunner and precursor will be recognised...
(Josep Lluís Sert, architect, 1954)
The value of Gaudí's work can be refuted [...] but it
is impossible to deny that he was an extraordinary man, a real creative genius
and architect [...].
A strong man, he belongued to a race of human beings from another time for
whom the awareness of higher order was placed above the materiality of life
(Joaquim Torres-García, artist, 1900)
This man makes everything he wants in stone [...] with a formidable
control of structures [...]. Among the men of his generation, it is he who
has the greatest architectural strength.
Gaudí
was a great artist
(Le Corbusier, architect, 1927)
Megalomaniac and ruinous as Frank Lloyd Wright... at the same
time architect, landscaper, sculptor, ceramist and "collagist" ... protagonist
of a
naturalism taken to the absurd when conceiving a cathedral as both a synthesis
of styles and a synthesis of arts...
(Michel Ragon, historian, 1974)
Gaudí's
methods, one century on, continue to be revolutionary.
(Sir Norman Foster, architect, 1985)
Gaudí senses and claims a heterodox use of brick and stone, the biological
and organic intention of forms and spaces, the idea that the volume of a
building is not strictly limited but rather integrates itself into a wider
cosmic space.
(Oriol Bohigas, architect, 1973)
Antoni Gaudí's greatness lies in his prolific invention of forms. The variety
and expressiveness, considered as sculptures, would be sufficient to make
of him a notabe modern artist.
(George R. Collins, historian, 1960)
Gaudí
was one of the most personal geniuses to emerge both in the 19th
and the 20th centuries. Gaudí's art is so rich, so varied, so simple to reduce
to a simple form, that he will somehow always be an architect for architects.
(H. R. Hitchcock, historian, 1957)
Gaudí, in himself, is a gothic, a baroque, a romantic, a rationalist and even
a surrealist.
(Antoni Llena, painter, 1998)
Empiricism and creativity seem the outstanding features
derived from Gaudí's architectural experience.
(Ignasi de Solà Morales, architect, 1980)
Gaudí
was a great creator who converted whatever he touched into art.
(Arnau Puig)
