"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me." ― Maya Lin Topic(s): Architecture More From Maya Lin "Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have." "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." "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." More In Architecture "Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower."― Richard Rogers "Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. ‘The client made me do this.’ ‘The city made me do this.’ ‘Oh, the budget.’ I don’t believe that anymore."― Frank Gehry "I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form."― George Hickenlooper