“There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.”

“Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.”

“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”

“It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.”

“I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.”

“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 polit...”

“Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He di...”

“Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of "inspiration." It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of scien...”

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”