140 Quotes by Zaha Hadid

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.