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.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

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

Architecture is invention.

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

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

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.