Art Quote by Oscar Niemeyer Download Open image “The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.” — Oscar Niemeyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Capability Concrete Fantastic Way
We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and… — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision. — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. — Frank Gehry 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
