Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
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My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
— Oscar Niemeyer
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
— Oscar Niemeyer
The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.
— Oscar Niemeyer
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.
— Oscar Niemeyer
We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.
— Oscar Niemeyer
We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.
— Oscar Niemeyer
What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.
— Oscar Niemeyer
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
— Oscar Niemeyer
The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
— Oscar Niemeyer
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Life is more important than architecture.
— Oscar Niemeyer
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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
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
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Surprise is key in all art.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is invention.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.
— Oscar Niemeyer
