"I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness."
― Oscar Niemeyer
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Architecture
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- "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."
- "It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms."
- "For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity."
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- "After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings."― Harry Seidler