140 Quotes by Zaha Hadid

Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.

The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it

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

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.