Oscar Niemeyer quotes - page 2

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. (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.

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It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

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I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

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Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

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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.

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It's funny, the power of beauty, to make us forget such injustice.

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Humanity needs dreams to endure misery, even if just for an instant.

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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.

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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. (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.

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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.

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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.

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When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.

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Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

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The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

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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.

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We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

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We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

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Humanity needs dreams to endure misery, even if just for an instant.A humanidade precisa de sonhos para suportar a miséria, nem que seja por um instante. (Oscar Niemeyer)

Architecture for me has always begun with drawing. 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. The buildings do appear on paper the way you say, but they are not the result of gratuitous brushstrokes. The pencil is guided by so many thoughts stored away in my mental library. But, when I have looked at the site for a building, considered its budget and thought of how it might be built, and what it might be, the drawings come very quickly. I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

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Occupation: Brazilian Architect
Born: December 15, 1907
Died: December 5, 2012
Quotes count: 47
Wikipedia: Oscar Niemeyer

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