64 Quotes by Oscar Niemeyer

For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

The architect’s role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

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

I was attracted by the curve – the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn’t enough to just be rational – It must also be beautiful.

My ambition has always been to reduce a building’s support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life’s work.

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.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don’t have a political stance.

Right angles don’t attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.