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Art is very tricky because its what you do for yourself. Its much

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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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

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War
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Maya Lin
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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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A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive. – Helmut Jahn

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architecture

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

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. – Tadao Ando

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architecture

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

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architecture

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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. – Galileo Galilei

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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. – Maya Angelou

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