My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even better, form follows feminine. – Oscar Niemeyer
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. – Oscar Niemeyer
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
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve. – Michael Gove