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Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian
Architect
Born:
Dec 15
,
1907
Died:
Dec 5
,
2012
Architecture
Beauty
Light
Me
Political
Work
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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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