All Renzo Piano Quotes
- One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. All
- Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. Architect
- A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. Head
- Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things. Architecture
- As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be… Architect
- 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… All
- Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. Adventurer
- Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It… Creative
- Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be… Architecture
- You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house. Architecture
- Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat… Capable
- In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up -… Architecture
- Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures ,… Beautiful
- 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 have… Better
- You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony Accept
- London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. Architecture
- As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. Architect
- In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. Architecture
- The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being… Angry
- A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an… Commercial