Quotes by : Renzo Piano

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

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and....

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

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate....

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.

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

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder....

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.....