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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. — Renzo Piano

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

Don't make a big deal out of a small deal - and you know everything is s small deal. Nothing is a big deal. — Art Hochberg

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation. — Renzo Piano

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. — Renzo Piano

It's not Cowardly to make a choice about what you want your life to be. Choosing what's right for you, maybe that's the bravest thing you can do. — Cassandra Clare

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. — Renzo Piano

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

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. — Renzo Piano

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

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings ... it's like having a family with a lot of children. — Renzo Piano

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. — Renzo Piano

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

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano

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

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things. — Renzo Piano

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

When you learn to die, you learn to live. — Morrie Schwartz.

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

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something. — Gordon Lightfoot

Every time I think my family has plumbed the depths of stupidity, somebody goes and finds a goddamn shovel." - Jane Harrington-Price — Seanan McGuire

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air. — Gunter Brus

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population. — Robert Payne

Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest room,
If in that room a friend await
Felicity of doom. — Emily Dickinson

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