"I pick up my pen. It flows. A……" — Oscar Niemeyer

"I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say."

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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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in… — Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a… — Sholem Asch
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. — Arthur Balfour
Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,… — Bob Beauprez
In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes. — Martha Beck
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. — Joseph Addison
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part… — Annie Besant
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes… — Ambrose Bierce
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least… — David Brainerd

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