Renzo Piano Quotes

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

Everybody draws when they are little.

Persona-wise, I represent a lot of people's childhoods.

As a kid, I liked building a lot of Legos and built houses and did some fun stuff with that.

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

I never played with anything like toys.

I loved being on set when I was younger.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible - abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

I kind of feel like I grew up at Disneyland.

Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.