The role of art in society differs for every artist.
Maya Lin
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- 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.
- 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.