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Renzo Piano has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
• A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
• Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised…
• As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you…
• Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many…
• Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
• Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and…
• Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You…
• You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block…
• Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality…
• In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I…

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