Art Quote by Oscar Niemeyer Download Open image “When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.” — Oscar Niemeyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Conquer Curves Natural Nature Solutions Space
We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
You think everything is set in your favour but life puts many curves in your path. — Sabreen Copy Share Image
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Rather, space curves, in a way that allows it to be boundless but finite.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
