I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual,… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio.… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time. — Maya Lin Copy Share
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin Copy Share
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder… — Maya Lin Copy Share
I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control. — Maya Lin Copy Share
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of… — Maya Lin Copy Share
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and… — Maya Lin Copy Share
I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always… — Maya Lin Copy Share
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share
I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be… — Maya Lin Copy Share
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do… — Maya Lin Copy Share
