List of Maya Lin Quotes

I Do Not Think You Can Find A Reason For Everything You Make.

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.

I Saw The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Not As An Object Placed Into The Earth But As A Cut In The Earth That Has Then Been Polished, Like A Geode.

You Really Can't Function As A Celebrity. Entertainers Are Celebrities. I'm An Architect. I'm An Artist. I Make Things.

I Probably Have Fundamentally Antisocial Tendencies. I Never Took One Extracurricular Activity. I Just Failed Utterly At That Level. Part Of Me Still Rebels Against That.

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.

I'm Not In A Hurry To Do A Lot Of Projects. I Am Very Resolved In Each Project I Take On.

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.

My Parents Are Both College Professors, And It Made Me Want To Question Authority, Standards And Traditions.

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.

I Was Probably The First Kid In My High School To Go To Yale. I Applied Almost As A Lark. Then, When I Got There, I Was The Dumbest Person In Your Class.