Quotes by : Renzo Piano

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily....

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

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if....

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

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

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

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza the plaza is the commercial version.....

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

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

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