All Maya Lin Quotes
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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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.
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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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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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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 left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
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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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You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
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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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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.
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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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