Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Life is more important than architecture.

The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

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.

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.