Renzo Piano Quotes

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

My music asks people to think critically, so how can I get upset when people think about me critically?

I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

My 'Glee' experience taught me - to a certain degree - not to listen too much to fan backlash, at least to negative things. Once you have the job, you have the job, and you've got to do it.

I liked Amy Winehouse a lot. I liked the way she did what she wanted, and she wasn't fazed about the press being on her back. I loved her songs so much.

I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

If I am going to be afraid of the criticisms that my films get, I am never going to make films.

I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.

Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

Even bigger directors like Mani Ratnam and Ram Gopal Varma have faced flak, that doesn't mean they've shied away from filmmaking.

I don't read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn't like a movie, I can't keep his criticisms in mind the next time I am making a film. Even if someone writes a great review about my film, I don't want to be affected by it.