Oscar Niemeyer Quote

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.


As quoted in Plans, Sections and Elevations : Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century (2004) by Richard Weston


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...

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...

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...

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...