Renzo Piano

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come…

— Renzo Piano

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my…

— Renzo Piano

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I…

— Renzo Piano

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting…

— 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…

— Renzo Piano

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

— Renzo Piano

I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look…

— Renzo Piano

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

— Renzo Piano

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

— 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.…

— Renzo Piano

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block…

— Renzo Piano

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

— 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…

— Renzo Piano

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are…

— Renzo Piano

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

— Renzo Piano

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality…

— Renzo Piano

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

— Renzo Piano

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and…

— Renzo Piano

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you…

— Renzo Piano

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you…

— Renzo Piano

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

— Renzo Piano

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

— Renzo Piano

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

— Renzo Piano

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of…

— Renzo Piano

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream…

— Renzo Piano