Maya Lin Quotes


49 quotes:

"We, as a species, never understood how we have changed [the environment]."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: Environment Quotes
"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."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"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."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"The role of art in society differs for every artist."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"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."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"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."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"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."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes
"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."
Author: Lin Quotes Category: American Architect Quotes

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