"Even though I build buildings and I pursue……" — Maya Lin
"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 to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."
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67 Quotes by Maya Lin
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Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up…
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes…
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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find…
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because…
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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked…
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I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each…
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I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the…
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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never…
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s,…
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new…
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Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from…
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
— Kevin McCloud
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The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of…
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...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or…
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The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness…
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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of…
— Stephen Bayley
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural…
— Robert Grudin
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Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not…
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