Maya Lin Architecture Quotes

What did Maya Lin say about Architecture?

Maya Lin has written many quotes about Architecture. E.g.,

• 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.

What are the top most famous Architecture quotes by Maya Lin?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Architecture by Maya Lin.

• 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.
• 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.
• The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
• In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's 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.
• I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
• Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.