Maya Lin Quotes

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• Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models…
• 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.
• My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
• Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
• 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…
• Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
• I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay…
• I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter…
• I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been…
• If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
• I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar.…
• 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…
• It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on…
• OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the…
• We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
• When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
• Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
• Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was…
• To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
• If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

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