Thomas Heatherwick Quotes

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

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Jobs, Ideas, Roots

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• I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Strong, Architecture, Invention

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• Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Art, Mean, Swimming

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• The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Motivation, Inspiration, Government

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