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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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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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Oscar Niemeyer
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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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The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world. – Stephen Gardiner

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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. – Arthur Erickson

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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at its best. – Ben Nicholson

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Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, its really difficult. – Robert Palmer

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