I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.


Oscar Levant

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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need so...
OSCAR NUNEZ
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too mu...
OSCAR NUNEZ
I like game shows.
OSCAR NUNEZ
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many pe...
OSCAR NUNEZ
I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or...
OSCAR NUNEZ
Life in California is beautiful.
OSCAR NUNEZ
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and...
OSCAR NIEMEYER
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...
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I alwa...
OSCAR NIEMEYER
I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Form follows beauty.
OSCAR NIEMEYER