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Quote by Maya Lin
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I purs

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I dont want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. – Maya Lin

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Art is very tricky because its what you do for yourself. Its much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. – Maya Lin

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architecture
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Maya Lin
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The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasnt about money. It was about teaching, or learning. – Maya Lin

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Learning
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. – Maya Lin

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My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after Im gone. – Julia Morgan

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. – Victor Hugo

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