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Quote of the Day November 14, 2026

“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”

Denis Diderot · Government

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Maya Lin

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.

Architecture

Maya Lin

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

Architecture

Maya Lin

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.

Architecture

Maya Lin

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.

Architecture

Maya Lin

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.

Architecture

Maya Lin

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.

Architecture

Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture

Quincy Jones

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Architecture