Hadid Quotes

#1. Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Amanda Hearst

#2. Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.

Zhang Xin

#3. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean, but people don't see the weird side of me. Like, I'll be dancing around. My best friends will always say that they wish others saw that side of me, when I'm doing a weird dance or weird faces or voices.

Gigi Hadid

#4. I like to do at least 15 minutes of cardio every day if I can fit it in.

Bella Hadid

#5. Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.

Gigi Hadid

#6. The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

Zaha Hadid

#7. People can see a picture of my body from the neck down and know who it is because of my beauty marks or whatever you call them, moles. I've always had them, and I've always loved them. Obviously you have to be careful with that; I get them checked regularly and make sure that they're healthy.

Gigi Hadid

#8. If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different.

Bella Hadid

#9. Blondes are so angelic. My sister can get away with anything.

Bella Hadid

#10. It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer.

Gigi Hadid

#11. I've been watching Maybelline commercials since I was little and singing along with the jingle and doing little Maybelline commercials in my bathroom when I was, like, 10.

Gigi Hadid

#12. No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.

Zaha Hadid

#13. It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

Zaha Hadid

#14. My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.

Bella Hadid

#15. I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?

Zaha Hadid

#16. I know that the designers that have me in their shows have me for a reason, I know that the designers that don't have me in their shows don't have me for a reason, and I accept either way.

Gigi Hadid

#17. I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Zaha Hadid

#18. My mentality has always been, If I'm not the best at something, then I might as well be the best at something else. I realized that I wasn't going to be an Olympic volleyball player, but I knew I could model at that level.

Gigi Hadid

#19. I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

Zaha Hadid

#20. People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

Zaha Hadid

#21. 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

#22. I know that I won't be modelling forever, but I think I'll be in the entertainment industry. I would love to host a talk show one day or have a cooking show. I love to cook ... I'm really open, so we'll see.

Gigi Hadid

#23. Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Zaha Hadid

#24. A lot of the time, we're shooting summer campaigns in winter because they have to come out the next season. It's the hardest to feel great in a bikini when it's cold ... so I appreciate a swimsuit shoot that's in warm weather.

Gigi Hadid

#25. The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

Zaha Hadid

#26. My devotion stemmed from my mom's love of horses. I have been riding since I could walk, and the fact that my mom knew everything about horses really helped my passion grow.

Bella Hadid

#27. I've learned very quickly to fall asleep wherever I can. I sleep in the car from event to event or show to show sometimes.

Gigi Hadid

#28. It's good to know how to be sexy, but something I'm still trying to work on is learning how to not be sexy, because that's an important part of growing as a model.

Gigi Hadid

#29. Not enough people know what Lyme disease is and the dangers of being bitten by an insect.

Gigi Hadid

#30. When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.

Gigi Hadid

#31. When I taught, all my best students were women.

Zaha Hadid

#32. I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.

Bella Hadid

#33. It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Zaha Hadid

#34. My mom always taught me to put toothpaste on pimples to dry them out at night. I do that all the time. I don't use anything fancy when I get a pimple. And I never use the same toothpaste for long because I get bored. So I'll do peppermint and then one month I'll do cinnamon. I'm creative.

Gigi Hadid

#35. If you're not a makeup artist, and you just try to go for the big looks, it just gets the best of you.

Gigi Hadid

#36. When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

Gigi Hadid

#37. I'm kind of a grandma, so I like cooking for my boyfriend and watching a movie. I cook a lot, actually. I'll make bacon-wrapped asparagus, steak, and pesto pasta with chicken ... but we go out to dinner a fair amount, too.

Gigi Hadid

#38. I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and angles, how to move, and what looks good and what doesn't.

Bella Hadid

#39. My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

Zaha Hadid

#40. For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

Zaha Hadid

#41. 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

#42. Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

Zaha Hadid

#43. I'm really self-conscious if I go to trainers, so I just do stuff on my own. I go on the treadmill or do yoga and Pilates if I can.

Bella Hadid

#44. Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

Zaha Hadid

#45. The show girls do, like, 12 shows a day. I only did one or two shows a day, and I was like, 'I need to go to sleep.'

Bella Hadid

#46. I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.

Zaha Hadid

#47. I loved London. In the 1970s ... it was very exciting, really wild.

Zaha Hadid

#48. What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

Zaha Hadid

#49. I always say, 'Eat clean to stay fit; have a burger to stay sane.'

Gigi Hadid

#50. It's not my duty as an architect to look at it

Zaha Hadid

#51. I have a weird thing against facials. I feel like all day my face is being touched and messed with on set, so I don't want more people touching my face!

Gigi Hadid

#52. I have more than 4 million followers on Instagram. All the companies I work for want me to guarantee how much I'll post for them, but I'm not going to force my career onto the people who follow me. I refuse to do 40 Instagram posts about any campaign.

Gigi Hadid

#53. 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.

Zaha Hadid

#54. In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Gigi Hadid

#55. Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

Zaha Hadid

#56. 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

#57. My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

Zaha Hadid

#58. I eat a lot of pizza and really unhealthy food.

Bella Hadid

#59. The first year I lived in New York, I tried a different burger every week to find my favorite burger in New York.

Gigi Hadid

#60. As long as they want me modeling, I'll be here. But I hope to maybe have a cooking show one day or host a talk show when I'm older and have a developed brand. That would be really fun.

Gigi Hadid

#61. I would be at horse shows by myself for weeks, and I had to make sure I was on my game at all times.

Bella Hadid

#62. I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

Zaha Hadid

#63. My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose and it's straight after that. Then, I like to use the matte brown shades from Maybelline The Nudes Palette to shadow my eyes, but without it looking like I'm wearing much.

Gigi Hadid

#64. My mom was a model. She met my dad when he was building the Ritz-Carlton in Colorado and she was modeling there. Although we were very blessed, my parents never wanted us to believe we didn't have to work. They didn't want us to think that our situation would get us through life.

Gigi Hadid

#65. The bigger fan base you have, the more companies will be attracted to you. And having a following, you can be so much more involved being a representative with the brand you're working with.

Gigi Hadid

#66. I personally think my sister is so stunning without makeup. And she doesn't wear that much makeup because she has the best skin color.

Gigi Hadid

#67. My order from Starbucks is an ice chai with one less pump of chai because I feel like they put too much, and it's, like, too sweet, and it's overwhelming.

Gigi Hadid

#68. Rag & Bone is a big part of my closet. I just really like how their jeans fit; I wear them a lot, and I think they make really cool staple pieces.

Gigi Hadid

#69. 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

#70. People always make fun of my eyebrows and think that I shape them this way! But if you see a picture of me from when I was two years old, I have the same exact eyebrow shape.

Gigi Hadid

#71. I'm an athletic person. But I love my body because I know what it's been through to be what it is. And honestly I'm not going to change for someone that is depressed about their life.

Gigi Hadid

#72. 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

#73. I usually do my hair and makeup in 30 to 45 minutes, and if my hair is dirty, I'll just put it in a bun or a ponytail. If it's in a bun, I'll part it down the middle and do a low bun with a couple pieces in the front coming down.

Gigi Hadid

#74. I kind of like to keep it very minimal. I get a lot of products sent to me, and I like to try them, but I end up just literally washing my face and putting on moisturizer and toner.

Bella Hadid

#75. A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it's very hard to get used to because they're not very graceful.

Gigi Hadid

#76. Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Zaha Hadid

#77. I pay attention to how every makeup artist does everything.

Gigi Hadid

#78. 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

#79. I will be the first to say, when I started, I was the worst on the runway ever. I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway; I try to get better with each one. I hope that I'm getting better as I go - it takes a few seasons to get your Karlie Kloss walk on.

Gigi Hadid

#80. I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy!

Gigi Hadid

#81. I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

Zaha Hadid

#82. On a casual day, I'd usually pull out my vintage Levi's, a pair of loafers or beat-up Converse, a bomber jacket, and a button-down shirt.

Bella Hadid

#83. I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.

Bella Hadid

#84. As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

Zaha Hadid

#85. My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athletic body.

Gigi Hadid

#86. You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

Zaha Hadid

#87. 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

#88. Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Zaha Hadid

#89. I grew up in Malibu, so it's nice to be back home and be with my parents and sit and drive my car and listen to music and just chill out for a little bit.

Bella Hadid

#90. When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

Gigi Hadid

#91. I just started using this app called Wine and Dine. It's like Instagram, but only for food. You post what you're eating and follow your friends, and then you can say, 'I wanna try that,' and so when you go on your 'wanna try' list, it'll tell you where it is.

Gigi Hadid

#92. 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

#93. People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

Zaha Hadid

#94. I was always in front of the camera. My mom was really passionate about photography - I have pictures of my whole life. I've always just been in front of my mom's camera, and it's always comfortable to me.

Gigi Hadid

#95. My body really reacts well to not eating a lot of wheat or dairy and staying on healthy foods.

Bella Hadid

#96. People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

Zaha Hadid

#97. Even if I have no other makeup on, I always want a nude lip, and if I'm going to do a bright, I want it to be matte.

Gigi Hadid

#98. I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard, and make friends.

Gigi Hadid

#99. If you don't like it, don't follow me, don't watch me, cause I'm not going anywhere.

Gigi Hadid

#100. I said, '200 pairs of jeans,' and then it just kind of went everywhere. I don't really own 200 pairs of jeans - I own a million pairs of jeans. No, but I definitely have a very solid amount. I won't say a number, but it's aggressive.

Bella Hadid