57 Quotes by Renzo Piano

We chose steel and extra wide panels of glass, which is almost like crystal. These are honest materials that create the right sense of strength and clarity between old and new, as well as a sense of transparency in the center of the institution that opens the campus up to the street.

The north hill is devoted to Paul Klee the musician and teacher, the central hill to the painter and poet and the south hill to the researcher and mathematician.

because the center of the composition is not a building, but an empty space.

A museum, ... is a place where one should lose one's head -- and I hope you will lose it.

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

When you walk 25-30 feet above ground, it is a miracle, because you are still in the city ... but you are flying above the city. You are in the middle of trees, and that is a moment of beauty.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.