niemeyer Quotes

“It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.”

“I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Architecture is invention.”

“Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.;Naomi Wolf;beauty 5888;Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.;Naomi Wolf;beauty 5889;Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.;Dave Reichert;beauty 5890;I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.;Melanie Fiona;beauty 5891;I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.;Diane Wakoski;beauty 5892;It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.;Max Eastman;beauty 5893;For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.;Richard Morris;beauty 5894;I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.;Albrecht Durer;beauty 5895;I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.;Julia Margaret Cameron;beauty 5896;The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.;Northrop Frye;beauty 5897;It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?;Hilary Swank;beauty 5898;I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.;Hayden Panettiere;beauty 5899;Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.;Marianne Moore;beauty 5900;Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.;Rose Byrne;beauty 5901;Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.;Oliver Platt;beauty 5902;But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.;Giovanni Pico della Mirandola;beauty 5903;My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.;Walter Mosley;beauty 5904;There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.;Gertrude Jekyll;beauty 5905;What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.;Gertrude Jekyll;beauty 5906;It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.;Lisa See;beauty 5907;And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.;Lisa See;beauty 5908;The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.;Edward Tufte;beauty 5909;Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.;Alfred de Vigny;beauty 5910;The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.;Daniel Hannan;beauty 5911;Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.;Anne Heche;beauty 5912;Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.;William Wycherley;beauty 5913;Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.;Polykarp Kusch;beauty 5914;As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!;Angela Kinsey;beauty 5915;I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.;Angela Kinsey;beauty 5916;I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.;Fan Binbing;beauty 5917;It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.;Paul Dirac;beauty 5918;The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.;Lee Scott;beauty 5919;A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.;Paul D. Boyer;beauty 5920;Form follows beauty.;Oscar Niemeyer;beauty 5921;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;beauty 5922;My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.”

“There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.”

“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.”