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Thomas Heatherwick Quotes

English - Designer | February 17, 1970 -

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Thomas Heatherwick

Me Mad British Problem-Solving Word

Clearly I've got an ego.

Thomas Heatherwick

Ego Clearly Got

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

Thomas Heatherwick

Ideas Everything Root Fascination

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Thomas Heatherwick

Love Time People You Buildings Made

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

Thomas Heatherwick

Art People Feel Interesting Trying

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

Thomas Heatherwick

Work I Am People Chance Down Build

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Thomas Heatherwick

Challenge Architecture Value Real

I've always been interested in projects that work at multiple levels.

Thomas Heatherwick

Work Always Been Interested Projects

I'm in love with cities. I find them amazing, the quiet co-ordination of thousands of people, going about what we're trying to do, and that organism of the city nurturing human aspiration, and the actual city fabric itself being a special thing rather than just infrastructure.

Thomas Heatherwick

Love People City Amazing Trying

It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.

Thomas Heatherwick

Me Building You Know Project See

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.

Thomas Heatherwick

Culture Architecture World Energy

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.

Thomas Heatherwick

Art City World America Museum Way

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