Oscar Niemeyer Quotes

I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.