Building Quote by Oscar Niemeyer Download Open image “I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.” — Oscar Niemeyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Engineering Flow Pens
When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked. — Jim Denevan Copy Share Image
There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Why...why would you throw, a pen at it. If...If we don't even know what it is? — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows… — Rumi 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
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
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading… — Jim Cummings Copy Share
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image