"I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness." ― Oscar Niemeyer Topic(s): Architecture More From Oscar Niemeyer "My work is not about ‘form follows function,’ but ‘form follows beauty’ or, even better, ‘form follows feminine.’" "It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology." "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." More In Architecture "I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly."― Arne Jacobsen "I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."― Catherine Deneuve "Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."― Ernest Hemingway