"You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers……" — Maya Lin
"You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things."
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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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My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was…
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit…
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I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want…
— Sandra Bullock
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Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of…
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the…
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Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in…
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -…
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
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