"When students leave college, they are like children……" — Oscar Niemeyer
"When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance."
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45 Quotes by Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer has 45 quotes on this site.
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Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but…
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When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.
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I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of…
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I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so…
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that…
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Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make…
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I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about…
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We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were…
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Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look…
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We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.
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We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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