Quote by Maya Lin
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very a

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. – Maya Lin

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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say its done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. – Maya Lin

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architecture
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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

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architecture
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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they be censored. We were a very insular little family. – Maya Lin

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Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. – Antonio Gaudi

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The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of. – John Irving

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architecture

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. – Bob Dylan

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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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