All Maya Lin Quotes
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
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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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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
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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.
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It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
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