#ture

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

— Maya Lin

#art #different #different way #give #i

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#american #american citizens #appointments #brazen #citizens

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #artist #build #buildings #deliberately

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

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

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

#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

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