Renzo Piano Quotes

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

I love museums but I don't want to live in one.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.

We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.

My grandfather, who's still alive, has always been involved in art, antiques, and things like that. I think I learned so much from him.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

I went to the Louvre in Paris, and I saw all the paintings and the Mona Lisa. You don't really see something like that every day. I was looking at it, and everything else in the room just shut out. Like, Leonardo Da Vinci painted this thing - this is unreal that he touched that. It had this crazy effect on me.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that's a beautiful thing.

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture; he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.