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

• My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Together
  • Cardio
  • Kickboxing

• 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

• No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Earth
  • Next
  • Allow

• 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

• I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Pretty
  • Dance
  • Brother

• 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

• Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix ex aliis alias reparat natura figuras: nec perit in toto quicquam, mihi credite, mundo, sed variat faciemque novat, nascique vocatur incipere esse aliud, quam quod fuit ante, morique desinere illud idem. cum sint huc forsitan illa, haec translata illuc, summa tamen omnia constant.

  

  Ovid

• 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

• But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

  

  Anna Neagle
  • Planning
  • Solitude

• We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Performance

• I love how art brings people from all different walks of life together in that way.

  

  Grace Weber
  • People
  • Art
  • Together

• Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Food
  • Weakness
  • Mine

• My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Daily

• Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Hurt

• 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