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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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architecture
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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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Beauty
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My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. – Thom Mayne

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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. – Antonio Gaudi

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I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. – Maya Lin

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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. – Michael Graves

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