Renzo Piano Quotes

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Renzo Piano

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• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • You

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Theory

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Father
  • Light
  • Voice

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Time
  • Women
  • May

• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • You
  • Insanity

• In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Forever

• You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Power
  • Powerful

• It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Time
  • Live
  • Experience

• There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Interesting

• Speaking can be a lot like exercise: The more time you spend getting ready, the more you mentally build the task into something larger than it actually is.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Time
  • Exercise

• I'm obsessed with jackets.

  

  Domenico Dolce

• I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

  

  Marla Maples
  • Work
  • Happy

• What do you call that when you add '-ism' on the end of a word? What is that process? 'Wordism'? Something like that, yeah.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala

• But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Truth
  • Wanted
  • Movie Star

• Every studio needs a rubber chicken.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Needs
  • Studio
  • Chicken

• That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

  

  Brian De Palma
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Girl

• The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Long
  • Why
  • May

• Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Dream
  • Child
  • Invention

• Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Dream
  • Explorers
  • Adventurer