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Maya Lin Quotes
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I dont see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. - Maya Lin Quotes
All my work is much more peaceful than I am. - Maya Lin Quotes
Art is very tricky because its what you do for yourself. Its much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. - Maya Lin Quotes
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I dont want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. - Maya Lin Quotes
Every memorial in its time has a different goal. - Maya Lin Quotes
For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. - Maya Lin Quotes
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didnt occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. - Maya Lin Quotes
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. Its more evident now. - Maya Lin Quotes
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 politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. - Maya Lin Quotes
I didnt have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. - Maya Lin Quotes
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didnt want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. - Maya Lin Quotes
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 fields rather than merging them. - Maya Lin Quotes
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. - Maya Lin Quotes
I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. - Maya Lin Quotes
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 that. - Maya Lin Quotes
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 began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. - Maya Lin Quotes
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 after school and blow things up. - Maya Lin Quotes
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 a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. - Maya Lin Quotes
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. Thats art to me. - Maya Lin Quotes
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didnt even occur to me that I would be an artist. - Maya Lin Quotes
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, I was the dumbest person in your class. - Maya Lin Quotes
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. Its what you learn, what you think. Thats all that counts. - Maya Lin Quotes
Im not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on. - Maya Lin Quotes
If we cant face death, well never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. - Maya Lin Quotes
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say its done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. - Maya Lin Quotes
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. - Maya Lin Quotes
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. Were reaching a time that well acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. - Maya Lin Quotes
Its funny, as you live through something youre not aware of it. - Maya Lin Quotes
Its only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. - Maya Lin Quotes
Math, its a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin Quotes
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