"It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract"

-- I. M. Pei

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“I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.”
“It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.”
“This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.7, Princeton University Press
“We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.”
“Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.”
“I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2007). “The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio”, p.132, Macmillan
“It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.”
“I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.”

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