All Maya Lin Quotes
- You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know,… Art
- 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 than… Adolescence
- I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate… Analytically
- I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there,… Applied
- In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour… All
- The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. Acknowledgement
- Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. All
- It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. Audience
- It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it. Aware
- The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning. Funny
- Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that… Better
- Competitions are what you do as a good exercise. Competition
- Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want… Architectural
- To fly we have to have resistance. Attitude
- I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. Architecture
- 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