List of Maya Lin Quotes

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Maya Lin
Total Quotes 81
I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.
Thinking Reason Reason For Everything
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. it's more evident now.
Children Home Artist
I saw the vietnam veterans memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.
Cutting Memorial Vietnam
You really can't function as a celebrity. entertainers are celebrities. i'm an architect. i'm an artist. i make things.
Artist Architecture Function
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.
Artist Rebel Levels
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.
Art Character Years
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. i am very resolved in each project i take on.
Artist Projects
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.
Growing Up Artist White
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
College Artist Parent
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.
War Artist Memorial
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.
War Artist Memorial
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.
School Kids Yale
  • Born: October 5, 1959
  • Occupation: Designer
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