Quotes by Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer

A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

Beautiful

Nice

Religious

Architecture does not change anything. It’s always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Believe

Doe

Important

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Drawing

Important

What Matters

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Country

Giving

Struggle

Camus says in ‘The Stranger’ that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

Beautiful

Enemy

Imagination

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

Dream

Humanity

Needs

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

Architect

Two

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete… This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.

Beach

Beautiful

Squares

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

Daily Tasks

Dinner

Lunch

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

Chance

Lucky

Opportunity

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Air

Ambition

Angle

Architect

Architecture

Art

Artistic

Beach

Beautiful

Belief

Believe

Break

Building

Catholic

Causes

Chance

Children

College

Country

Crap

Curves

Daily Tasks

Design

Dinner

Doe

Drawing

Dream

Emotion

Enemy

Fantastic

Fighting

Flow

Giving

Groups

Humanity

I Can

Ideology

Ifs

Imagination

Important

Life Is

Lines

Littles

Lucky

Lunch

Men

Morning

Mother

Moving

Needs

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Quotes by Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Niemeyer

A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

Architecture does not change anything. It’s always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Camus says in ‘The Stranger’ that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

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

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

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