41 Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

Clearly I've got an ego.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

I've always been interested in projects that work at multiple levels.

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.

The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work - our passion is public projects, wherever they are.

When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion.