Surprise is key in all art.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

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

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.

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

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

Surprise is key in all art.