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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian Architect
Born: Dec 15, 1907
Died: Dec 5, 2012
Architecture Beauty Light Me Political Work
Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid
Surprise is key in all art. Oscar Niemeyer
Art Key Surprise
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. Oscar Niemeyer
Struggle Architecture Progress Political Will Wish Country Carried Out Must Give Participate Content Always Human Lacks Which Social Social Progress Express Technical
Form follows beauty. Oscar Niemeyer
Beauty Follows Form
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. Oscar Niemeyer
Dreams Needs Daily Humanity Able Only Miseries Instant Existence Survive To Survive Even
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. Oscar Niemeyer
Me Man Angles Attract Nor Lines Inflexible Straight Created Hard Right
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Oscar Niemeyer
Work Art Architecture Cause Emotion Surprise Newness Should Search
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. Oscar Niemeyer
Life Work Architecture Important Matters Spent Drawing More Than Improve Human Human Beings Board Whole Beings
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. Oscar Niemeyer
Me Creativity Beauty Valued More More Than Anything Line Than Anything Manifest Act
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture Political Ideology Disseminate Political Ideology Any
I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. Oscar Niemeyer
Myself Think More Could Still Than Now
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. Oscar Niemeyer
Life Political Problems College Nothing About Students Like Know Leave Children Stance Who
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. Oscar Niemeyer
You Space Design More No Reason Almost Because Buildings Concrete Cover Any Reason Basic
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. Oscar Niemeyer
Everyone Priests Like Talking Catholics Beliefs

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