Quotes by : Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important....

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you....

Form follows beauty.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows....

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act....

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Architecture is invention.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried....