#architecture

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

— Maya Lin

#thought #warmth

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #because #harder #make #me

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. ↗

— Edwin Lutyens

#architecture #great #never #patrons #will

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

#approach #architecture #art #both #choose

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #combination #computer #figured #i

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

#architecture #art #aware #become #began

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#apart #architecture #art #crazy #creatures

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#almost #architecture #art #childlike #go

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #arts #belongs #common #does

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #directions #future #house #new