Danh ngôn của Oscar Niemeyer (Sứ mệnh: 6)

Form follows beauty.
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.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
Architecture is invention.
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Surprise is key in all art.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.