Zaha Hadid Quotes

There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.

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• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

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• I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

  

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• Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

  

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• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  

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• I don't care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own.

  

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• There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Work
  • Moments
  • Focus