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1. "A museum is a place where one should lose one's head." ~ Renzo Piano

2. "A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things." ~ Renzo Piano

3. "Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well." ~ Renzo Piano

4. "As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do." ~ Renzo Piano

5. "Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction." ~ Renzo Piano

6. "Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American." ~ Renzo Piano

7. "I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family." ~ Renzo Piano

8. "I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building." ~ Renzo Piano

9. "I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children." ~ Renzo Piano

10. "In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years." ~ Renzo Piano

11. "A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand." ~ Renzo Piano

12. "Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island." ~ Renzo Piano

13. "In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music." ~ Renzo Piano

14. "In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother." ~ Renzo Piano

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