--- title: "2 Architecture Art Quotes By Renzo Piano" description: "2 Architecture Art quotes by Renzo Piano. Plus more from Renzo Piano and more Architecture Art sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/743/renzo-piano-15794_anthropology_architecture-is-art-i-don-t-think-you-sh_1869852.jpg" --- > [Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/architecture-is-art-i-don-t-think-you-should-say-that-too-much-but-it/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/743/renzo-piano-15794_anthropology_architecture-is-art-i-don-t-think-you-sh_1869852.jpg) > [Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/architecture-is-art-but-art-vastly-contaminated-by-many-other-things/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/renzo-piano-15794_architecture_architecture-is-art-but-art-vastly-conta_3049656.jpg) ## Other authors on Architecture Art ## More by Renzo Piano > [When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/when-you-design-a-building-you-start-from-a-general-philosophy-and/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/i-came-to-architecture-from-building-because-my-father-was-a-builder/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/in-a-way-i-spend-my-entire-life-stealing-from-everything-from-the/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/there-is-something-about-giving-everything-to-your-profession-in/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/every-year-i-spend-one-month-just-sailing-but-i-still-work-when-i-m/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/in-architecture-you-should-live-for-150-years-because-you-have-to/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/i-think-people-should-try-to-teach-young-children-that-these/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/my-inspiration-came-from-the-land-and-of-course-from-paul-klee-and/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/when-a-man-is-not-satisfied-with-a-house-where-he-lives-he-becomes-an/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/if-you-have-total-freedom-then-you-are-in-trouble-it-s-much-better/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/you-can-put-down-a-bad-book-you-can-avoid-listening-to-bad-music-but/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/architects-have-to-dream-we-have-to-search-for-our-atlantises-to-be/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/there-is-something-about-giving-everything-to-your-profession-in-2/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/when-you-walk-25-30-feet-above-ground-it-is-a-miracle-because-you-are/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) > [One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/renzo-piano/one-of-the-great-beauties-of-architecture-is-that-each-time-it-is/) [Renzo Piano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/renzo-piano/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/architecture-art/renzo-piano/#itemlist", "name": "2 Architecture Art Quotes By Renzo Piano", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Architecture is art. 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