"Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose."

-- Wu Guanzhong

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“Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.”
“Simplicity and complexity need each other.”

Source : John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.45, MIT Press
“If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.”
“One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.”

Source : George Leigh Mallory's letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921) as quoted in Walt Unsworth "Everest: The Mountaineering History‎" (p. 47), 1981.
“It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.”
“Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.”
“Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.”
“There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”

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