Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

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

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

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