Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
Quote by Oscar Niemeyer
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
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Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
- 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.
- Form follows beauty.
- For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
- My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
- Architecture is invention.
- Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
- It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
- I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
- Money: power at its most liquid.
- I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
- People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
- You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
- My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.