"I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone……" — Oscar Niemeyer

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

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45 Quotes by Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but…
When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of…
I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so…
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that…
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make…
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about…
We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were…
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look…
We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.
We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief… — Isaac Asimov
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as… — Margaret Atwood
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel… — Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,… — Jane Austen
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what… — Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach

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