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"The role of art in society differs for every artist."

Maya Lin on Society

More quotes about Society

  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

  • "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Society

  • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

  • "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Maya Lin

  • "Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."

  • "I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."

  • "Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."

  • "Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist."

  • "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."

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