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Architecture Quotes by Maya Lin
- Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models…
- The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
- I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I…
- You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
- I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate…
- In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour…
- Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want…
- I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
- I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
- Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
- Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the…
- For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
More Architecture Quotes
- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
- My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto
- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto
- Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
- The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto
- I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert… — Dan Brown
- Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has… — Dan Brown