Quote by Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing

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

Other quotes by Oscar Niemeyer

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. – Oscar Niemeyer

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Dreams
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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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Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. – Stephen Gardiner

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architecture

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. – Alex Winter

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architecture

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. – Oscar Niemeyer

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I love a lot of things, and Im pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. Id be an obsessive hairdresser. – Gates McFadden

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architecture

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