#mayalindesign

How we are using up our homes, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

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.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching or learning.