Oscar Niemeyer Important Quotations

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

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.

Life is more important than architecture.