Best quotes by Oscar Niemeyer on Architecture

Checkout quotes by Oscar Niemeyer on Architecture

  • Architecture is invention.
    - Oscar Niemeyer
  • It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
    - Oscar Niemeyer
  • 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
  • I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
    - 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.
    - Oscar Niemeyer
  • It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
    - Oscar Niemeyer