Top 25 Quotes by Oscar Niemeyer

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.

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

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

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.

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.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

Surprise is key in all art.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.