Maya Lin Quotes


You just want to translate what you see. I keep saying I am no different from a 19th-century landscape artist. - Maya Lin


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


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


You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. - Maya Lin


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


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


We, as a species, never understood how we have changed [the environment]. - Maya Lin


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


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