Oscar Niemeyer quotes

Form follows beauty.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

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

Surprise is key in all art.

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

Architecture is invention.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

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

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.

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

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