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It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

Oscar Niemeyer
Country, Men, Curves
"Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century". Book by Richard Weston, 2004.

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 political struggle.

Oscar Niemeyer
Country, Struggle, Giving
"Oscar Niemeyer, Architect Who Gave Brasi­lia Its Flair, Dies at 104" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

Oscar Niemeyer
Country, School, Please Me
Oscar Niemeyer's acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1988.

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