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

Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

Surprise is key in all art.

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete... This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.