"It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms." ― Oscar Niemeyer Topic(s): Architecture More From Oscar Niemeyer "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 is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology." "I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness." More In Architecture "The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."― Stephen Gardiner "Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building."― Arthur Erickson "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."― Frank Gehry