Oscar Niemeyer Quotes

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

Form follows beauty.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

I believe in art.

All music is beautiful.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Art matters.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.