Logo
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

Other quotes by Maya Lin

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 began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. – Maya Lin

Category:
architecture
Author
Maya Lin
Read Quote

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. – Maya Lin

Category:
War
Author
Maya Lin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
architecture
category

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. – Arthur Erickson

Category:
architecture

Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel

Category:
architecture

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. Its about space and form and its something you can share with other people. – Donna Karan

Category:
architecture

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? – Bernard Levin

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

The poor are poor because the rich are rich. – Author Unknown

Category:
Poverty

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. – Hu Shih

Category:
Death

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends. – James Boswell

Category:
Sisters

The dancers body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. – Isadora Duncan

Category:
Dance, Dancing