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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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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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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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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. – Michael Ende

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architecture

Architecture cant fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isnt real. – Frank Stella

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architecture

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. – James H. Breasted

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architecture

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. – Milton Friedman

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architecture

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