"Every memorial in its time has a different…" — Maya Lin
"Every memorial in its time has a different goal."
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67 Quotes by Maya Lin
Maya Lin has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up…
- The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes…
- 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 should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because…
- 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…
- I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each…
- I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the…
- 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…
- I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s,…
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