Architecture Quote by Maya Lin Download Open image “I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.” — Maya Lin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Art Different People Surroundings Way
I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I'm really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art. — Rich Brian Copy Share Image
I look at people around me from the inside and from the outside at the same time, that's how I work and how I… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them. — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I don't think I can see the world through other people's eyes, but I can capture an attitude or a look that makes others… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image