All Maya Lin Quotes
- Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. Figuring
- When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of… Asked
- To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is… Able
- I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. Approach
- 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… Deal
- Every memorial in its time has a different goal. Different Goal
- I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on. Each
- Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. Architecture
- I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against… Activity
- My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to… Amount
- All my work is much more peaceful than I am. All
- Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the… Architecture
- For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. Architecture
- How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child.… Child
- I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. Anyone
- I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. Class
- I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an… Always Making
- I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. All
- 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 walk… Death
- It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. Childhood