My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want… — 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
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 saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that… — 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
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love… — 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
Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
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 Image
I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
