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" Architecture is invention. "
Architecture
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. "
Drawing
Human
Life
" 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. "
Progress
Architecture
Struggle
" Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. "
Simple
Pure
Curves
" For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. "
Beauty
Line
Manifest
" Form follows beauty. "
Follows
Beauty
Form
" Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. "
Dreams
Survive
Only
" I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. "
Cannot
Before
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. "
Go
Work
Right
" I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. "
Priests
Talking
Everyone
" I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. "
Nothing
Pen
Say
" I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. "
Cause
Art
Surprise
" I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. "
Think
Still
Now
" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "
Any
Ideology
Political
" It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. "
Light
Drawing
Architecture
" My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' "
Function
Work
Beauty
" 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. "
Light
Buildings
Me
" Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. "
Hard
Attract
Angles
" 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. "
People
Waiting
Time
" Surprise is key in all art. "
Art
Surprise
Key
" The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. "
Way
Go
Fantastic
" The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. "
Cathedral
Good
Very
" There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. "
Design
You
Reason
" When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. "
Mother
Pencil
Said
" When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. "
Children
College
Know
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