"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

posted in architecture


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.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."

-Maya Lin

warView Quote
"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."

-Maya Lin

warView Quote
"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."

-Maya Lin

warView Quote
"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

warView Quote
"When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business."

-Maya Lin

warView Quote
"I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."

-Maya Lin

teacherView Quote

More Quotes About architecture

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up."

-George Lamming

architectureView Quote
"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."

-Edwin Lutyens

architectureView Quote
"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."

-Richard Meier

architectureView Quote
"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."

-James Wyatt

architectureView Quote
"Architecture aims at Eternity."

-Christopher Wren

architectureView Quote
"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."

-Gustav Stickley

architectureView Quote