My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Quote by Oscar Niemeyer
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
- Architecture is invention.
- It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Form follows beauty.
Best Quotes
- Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
- In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
- Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.
- You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
- Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue.
- I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.