All Maya Lin Quotes
- 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… Architecture
- 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. Actually Want
- My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. Authority
- Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you. Allowing
- 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
- Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. Actually Closer
- 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… Blow
- 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… Conversation
- 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… Been
- If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings. Ability
- 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.… Cut
- 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… American
- 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… Acknowledge
- 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… American
- We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. Any
- When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. Censored
- Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field. Any
- 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… Abroad
- To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion. All
- If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn? Accuracy
- You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. Architect
- I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need… Artwork
- The role of art in society differs for every artist. Art
- I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us. Form
- I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control. Cannot Force