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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundi

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. Thats art to me. – Maya Lin

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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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architecture
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Maya Lin
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up. – Maya Lin

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teacher
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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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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. – Ernest Hemingway

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architecture

Less is more. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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If youre into architecture and youre from the West, everything is hors doeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately youre led there. You cant escape it. – Ben Nicholson

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architecture

Form follows function. – Louis Sullivan

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architecture

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