Zaha Hadid Quotes

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Viewing abstract art requires more imagination. The result is more intense involvement of the viewer—more pleasurable.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

When I have an exhibition, I usually arrange it so that if people want to, they can spend two hours there. That way, people who like it don't feel cheated when they go. I want them to walk into the exhibition space and look low and at other levels and angles. The same with emotions. I want them to be emotionally manipulated, to come out feeling something. I want them to laugh, smile, feel sad. Even if they feel angry, that's okay.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.