All Maya Lin Quotes
- 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
- My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a… Art
- My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. China
- Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next. All
- You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. Anarchist
- You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. Come Away
- I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The… Deliberately
- I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed… Almost Terrifying