Brazil Quotes

Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.
Architecture is invention.
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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.
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
Form follows beauty.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
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.
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