Oscar Niemeyer Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete... This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Beach, Squares

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

• I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Technology, Curves, Sensual

  Oscar Niemeyer (2000). “The curves of time: the memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer”, Phaidon Press

• A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Religious, Nice

  Oscar Niemeyer (2003). “Oscar Miemeyer, a Legend of Modernism”

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