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1. "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

2. "Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

3. "I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

4. "It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

5. "My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'" ~ Oscar Niemeyer

6. "The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

7. "The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

8. "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

9. "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

10. "Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

11. "Surprise is key in all art." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

12. "Form follows beauty." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

13. "I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

14. "It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

15. "Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

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

17. "Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

18. "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

19. "I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

20. "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." ~ Oscar Niemeyer

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