Life is more important than architecture.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

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.

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.

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

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.