“It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.”
Funny
“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.”
LearningAll Quotes by Maya Lin
“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.”
Learning“Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.”
Age“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 playground.”
Dad“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.”
Architecture“Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.”
Architecture“Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.”
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. It's more evident now.”
Home“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.”
Learning“When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.”
Family“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.”
Politics“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.”
Death“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.”
Architecture“It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.”
War“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.”
Teacher“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.”
Architecture“I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.”
Architecture“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”
War“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“When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.”
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