Thomas Heatherwick Quotes

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I love architecture.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

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.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I like building.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

Architecture is invention.

The future of architecture is culture.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.