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.

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.

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

Architecture is invention.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.....

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