Renzo Piano Quotes

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it.

If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.