Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism,… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
