Oscar Niemeyer: Quotes about the world

Oscar Niemeyer was Brazilian architect. Explore interesting quotes on world.

Oscar Niemeyer: 28 quotes0 likes

“I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete.… This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.”

The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 62.

“Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?”

Quoted in "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves", Tom Dyckhoff, The Times Online (London, 2007-12-12).

“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.”

The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 176.