Maya Lin 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.

  Maya Lin

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  Tags in Want, Learning, School, Competition

• You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you’ve lost it.

  Maya Lin

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  Tags in Conclusion, Think

• 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.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Conviction, Brain, Study, Matter

• You couldn’t put me in a social group setting. I’m probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

  Maya Lin

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  Tags in Social, Terrible

• When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they’ be censored. We were a very insular little family.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Little

• 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.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Business

  Tags in War, Like

• We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

  Maya Lin

• Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have.

  Maya Lin

• 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.

  Maya Lin

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  Tags in American, Want, Freedom, Personal

• To fly we have to have resistance.

  Maya Lin

  Tags in Resistance

• The role of art in society differs for every artist.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Rule, Artist

• 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.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Process, Want, Think, Sometimes

• 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.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Life, Money

  Tags in Learning, Teaching

• The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

  Maya Lin

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  Tags in Definition, Acknowledge, War

• Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that’s true in any creative field.

  Maya Lin

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  Tags in Creative, Good, Thinking, Sometimes

• Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Good, Teacher, Think

• Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They’re all necessary and they’re all valid.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Necessary, Artist

• 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.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Parents

• 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.

  Maya Lin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Think, Hurt

• Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn’t predicate what you might do next.

  Maya Lin

Maya Lin (55)

Birth:	5th October, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Architectural Designer, Artist

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