Renzo Piano Quotes

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

Yes, you must have the courage of being free.

I'd like to live off-grid.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Empowerment is a word that comes with liberty.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice