#arch

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

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

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#almost #architecture #art #childlike #go

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. ↗

— Maya Lin

#deep #deep down #down #group #i

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #doing #everyday #everyday life #find

And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks. ↗

— James Lipton

#first #first of all #force #i #me

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#archaeology #aspect #get #historian #i

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing. ↗

— David Lloyd

#actually #alan #always #anarchy #anything

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computational #hope #i #make #metaphor

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years. ↗

— Alison Lohman

#bakery #dad #french #mom #owned