"Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future.” - Robert Hughes, 'The Shock of the New,' 1980.

"Brasília is an abstract city. And there is no way to make it concrete. It is a rounded city with no corners." - Clarice Lispector, 'Brasília,' 1972.

"Let this be a new town, symbolical of the freedom of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past — an expression of the nation's faith in the future." - Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on Chandigarh, 1951.

"I gaze once more over the future of my country, and foresee the dawn with unshakable faith and unlimited confidence in the greatness of its destiny." - President Juscelino Kubitschek on a 1956 visit to Brasília.