We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

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

When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

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

Life is more important than architecture.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

The people who care about us the most are the ones who are most likely to hold us back.

You have to do anything you can think of that gets you excited.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.

I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?