Maya Lin Quotes

• Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They’re all necessary and they’re all valid.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Necessary, Artist

• To fly, we have to have resistance.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Achievement, Attitude, Risk, Success

  Tags in Difficulties

• 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, the side of your brain that has the smarts won’t necessarily help you in making art.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Conviction, Brain, Study, Matter

• 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 and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Project, Want, Start, Crazy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Public, Idea, Longer, Mind

• You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Learning, School, Competition

• I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Art

  Tags in People, Looking

• 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 back out into the light.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Look

• 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 I would have felt comfortable with.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Friends, Comfortable

• Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn’t occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prejudice, American, Little

• When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they’ be censored. We were a very insular little family.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Little

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fundamentals, Just

• 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 space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time, Journey

• OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Think, Hurt

• Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that’s true in any creative field.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creative, Good, Thinking, Sometimes

• The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it’s magical.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Process, Want, Think, Sometimes

• It’s funny, as you live through something you’re not aware of it.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Something

• I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Love

  Tags in School, Like, Study

• You couldn’t put me in a social group setting. I’m probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Social, Terrible

• 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.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Life, Money

  Tags in Learning, Teaching

Maya Lin (55)

Birth:	5th October, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Architectural Designer, Artist

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