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Quote by Oscar Niemeyer
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cau

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. – 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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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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My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even better, form follows feminine. – Oscar Niemeyer

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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. – James Rouse

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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. – Tadao Ando

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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. – Marc Newson

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. – Martin Mull

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