Oscar Niemeyer Zitate

Aus Niemeyers Buch: Wir müssen die Welt verändern, herausgegeben von Alberto Riva, aus dem Italienischen übersetzt von Friederike Hausmann. Zitiert in: Wolf D. Prix – der Himmelsstürmer https://www.ooom.com/digital/wolf-d-prix-der-himmelsstuermer/4/
Original italienisch: "l'architettura non è importante. L'architettura è un pretesto. Importante è la vita, importante è l'uomo!" - Il mondo è ingiusto, di Oscar Niemeyer (Autore) & Alberto Riva (Curatore). Mondadori 2012

SPIEGEL-Interview, 11.März 2002, spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-21662575.html, zitiert in Perlentaucher.de http://www.perlentaucher.de/magazinrundschau/2002-03-11.html

The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 169

Quoted in "Gordon Bunshaft and Oscar Niemeyer: Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates 1988" http://www.pritzkerprize.com/bunnei.htm#...about%20Oscar%20Niemeyer, pritzkerprize.com (1988).

Quoted in "Architect of Optimism," Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times (2007-04-13).

Acceptance speech, Pritzker Architecture Prize http://www.pritzkerprize.com/bunnei.htm#Oscar%20Niemeyer's%20Acceptance%20Speech (1988).

As quoted in Plans, Sections and Elevations : Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century (2004) by Richard Weston
Variant translations:
It is not the right angle that attracts me,
Nor the hard, inflexible straight line, man-made.
What attracts me are free and sensual curves.
The curves in my country’s mountains,
In the sinuous flow of its rivers,
In the beloved woman’s body.
As quoted in "Architect of Optimism" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/db740a7a-e897-11db-b2c3-000b5df10621.html?nclick_check=1, Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times (2007-04-13)
It is not the right angle that attracts me.
nor the straight line, tough, inflexible,
created by man.
what attracts me is the free, sensual curve.
the curve I find in the mountains of my country,
in the sinuous course of its rivers,
in the waves of the sea,
in the clouds of the sky,
in the body of the favourite woman.
Of curves is made all the universe.
As quoted on a Photo page on the Museum of Contemporary Art over Baia da Guanabara http://app.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/122423/?nextnav=favs&navuser=1

Quoted in "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article3035080.ece, Tom Dyckhoff, The Times Online (London, 2007-12-12).

Quoted in "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves," Tom Dyckhoff, The Times Online (London, 2007-12-12).

The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 62.

Quoted in "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves", Tom Dyckhoff, The Times Online (London, 2007-12-12).

Quelle: Quoted in Tracy Metz, "'Form Follows Feminine': Niemeyer, 90, Is Still Going Strong," Architectural Record (December 1997), p. 35.

The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 176.

Original: (pt) Quoted in Ciro Faro, De volta para a terra
Original: A humanidade precisa de sonhos para suportar a miséria, nem que seja por um instante.

Original: (pt) É estranho o poder da beleza, que nos faz esquecer tanta injustiça.
Quelle: Quoted in Alberto Xavier, Depoimento de uma geração: arquitetura moderna brasileira