I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.

- I. M. Pei

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

- I. M. Pei

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they ar…

- I. M. Pei

I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.

- I. M. Pei

Great artists need great clients.

- I. M. Pei

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 …

- I. M. Pei

Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. Bu…

- I. M. Pei

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

- I. M. Pei

I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of …

- I. M. Pei