You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

- Renzo Piano

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

- Renzo Piano

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

- Renzo Piano

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

- Renzo Piano

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture …

- Renzo Piano

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat…

- Renzo Piano

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

- Renzo Piano

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

- Renzo Piano

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

- Renzo Piano