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Oscar Niemeyer - From the Aging category:
I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Architecture category:
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational; It must also be beautiful. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Architecture category:
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Architecture category:
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Beauty category:
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Construction category:
Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Drawing category:
When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Education category:
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life... (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Emotion category:
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Fantasy category:
We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Form category:
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Humanity category:
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Idealism category:
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don't want anything but general happiness. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Imagination category:
Camus says in The Stranger that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Importance category:
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Importance category:
My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Inspiration category:
I was attracted by the curve - the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Keys category:
Surprise is key in all art. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Life category:
Life is very fleeting. It's important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we've done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That's it. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Lines category:
It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Materials category:
The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Methodology category:
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Patriotism category:
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Politics category:
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Politics category:
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Profession category:
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Religion category:
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Routine category:
I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Rules category:
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn't have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Space category:
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Space category:
When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Time category:
Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. (Oscar Niemeyer)
Oscar Niemeyer - From the Understanding category:
My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget. (Oscar Niemeyer)
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