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

Maya Lin on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

  • "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

    Winston Churchill on Architecture

  • "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

    Jim Rohn on Architecture

  • "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

    Ayn Rand on Architecture

  • "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

    Ayn Rand on Architecture

  • "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

    Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

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."

  • "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."

  • "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."

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