Renzo Piano Quotes

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

Renzo Piano

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• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Leadership
  • Rockefeller Plaza

• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Character
  • Destiny

• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Eyes
  • Mouth
  • Nose

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Energy
  • Inside
  • Alpha

• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Want
  • Same
  • Most

• My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Friends
  • Sleep
  • Forget

• The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Wall
  • Made
  • Response

• She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• Don't kiss a man who hasn't shaved.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Kiss

• In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. - vol. II, p. 582 (as cited on p. 177 of Schopenhauer: A Biography)

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Philosophical

• What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Faith
  • Community

• Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Why
  • Success

• I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Song
  • Night
  • Fire

• I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

  

  Brian Lamb
  • People
  • Nice

• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Heart

• What we love about working at Marvel is they'll have a crazy opening for a movie like 'The Avengers' - like, a record-breaking all-time opening - and you get to the office on Monday, and they don't even have a pizza; it's back-to-work time.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Failure
  • Trade
  • Cynicism

• Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Firm
  • Obstinate
  • Timid

• Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of Shakespeare — which is perhaps, for both, the fact of not existing. Every art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, every work is the implementation of this original fault, from which come to us a new light and a risky conception of plenitude.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Mistake

• Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Art
  • Architecture