Oscar Niemeyer Architect Quotations

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

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

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

Architecture is invention.

Life is more important than architecture.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

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.