"Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings."

-- Shigeru Ban

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“Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself.”
“There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife â€” a tyrannical midwife.”

Source : Stephen Spender's lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in "The New York Times", November 20, 1984.
“Truth has to fall on fertile soil.”
“My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.”

Source : Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books
“I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.”
“I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.”
“"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.”
“I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!”

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