Oscar Niemeyer's Quote - For me beauty is valued more than anything

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

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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. – Oscar Niemeyer

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