Zaha Hadid Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Funny Inspirational #Believe #Sacrifice
“I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Appreciated #Proportion #Dare
“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Sticks #Degrees #Architect
“I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Simple #Thinking #Make You Think
“Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Smart #Inspiration #Feminist
“I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Thinking #Cities #Rivers
“I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Reality #Design #Ambitious
“I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Girl #Guy #Mind
“Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Block #Believe #Museums
“People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Icons #People #Design
“As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Nice #Design #Quality
“I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Museums #Furniture #Pedestal
“You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Art #White #Kind
“I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Eccentric
“You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Inspirational #Goal #Want
“Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Fashion #Space #Architecture
“Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Important #Housing
“People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Thinking #People #Way
“Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Writing #Looks #Architecture
“All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Thinking #Interesting #People
“Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Architecture #Tough #Difficult
“I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Cities #Exciting #Toughness
“Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Taught #Cautious
“The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Mean #America #Interviews
“As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#World
“My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Father #Party #Leader
“I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Sensitive #Conscious
“I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#London #East #Driving
“When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Growing Up #Iraq #Optimism
“Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.”
-- Zaha Hadid

#Hate #Men #Views

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16 Zaha Hadid Quotes On Fashion Architecture Space And Culture

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