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Architecture is invention. - Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is invention. – Oscar Niemeyer

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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. – Oscar Niemeyer

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Morning
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For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. – Oscar Niemeyer

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Beauty
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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. – Oscar Niemeyer

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architecture
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. Its a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. – Ai Weiwei

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architecture

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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architecture

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. – Ernest Dimnet

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architecture

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. – Charles Eames

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architecture

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Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours. – Swedish Proverb

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