Maya Lin Quotes
49 Maya Lin quotes:
"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
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"I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd."
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"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."
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"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."
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"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."
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"My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar."
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"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."
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"We, as a species, never understood how we have changed [the environment]."
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Environment Quotes
"For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
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"It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like."
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"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."
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"To fly we have to have resistance."
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"I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world."
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"I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on."
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