Oscar Niemeyer Quotes
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
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Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
