Renzo Piano Quotes

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

Renzo Piano

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• I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Deep
  • Darkness
  • Surface

• You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • You
  • Made
  • Materials

• The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Things
  • Materials

• Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Style
  • Surface
  • Substance

• I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Way
  • Materials
  • Detect

• I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Like
  • Person
  • Intensity

• In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • War
  • Cold
  • Intensity

• The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Artist
  • Spirit
  • Materials

• I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Materials

• "Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Materials

• It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Important
  • Long
  • Smooth

• Each material is only what we make it.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Make
  • Materials

• It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Age
  • Architecture

• The intensity level is high every game. But when you play Dallas, the intensity is going to go up.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Up
  • High
  • Game

• ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Light
  • Joy
  • Everyday

• People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Money

• "Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Deep
  • Circumstances
  • Surface

• Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Passion
  • Training
  • Intensity

• Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fool
  • Slave
  • Smooth

• If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Deep

• I'm a nice guy, you know. It's hard work to be an asshole.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Nice

• [James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Important
  • Country
  • Questions

• Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Materials
  • Surface
  • Intensity