Maya Lin Quotes and its meanings

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

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

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.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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.

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.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

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

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.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

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.

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.

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.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

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.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

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.

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.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

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.