Architect Quote by Renzo Piano Download Open image “Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.” — Renzo Piano ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architect Architecture Architecture and design Architecture design Ass Bad ass Badass Entire life Fighting Gravity Ideas Life Unreasonable
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“The Earth Architecture is designed in a way that no Human is powerful, only someone can pretend to be.” — RAGHUVEER MAGANTI Copy Share Image
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
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… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
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… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image