Quotes by Maya Lin

Maya Lin

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.

Artist

Journey

Space

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Love

Peace

Peaceful

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Art

Integrity

Strong

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can’t be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Architecture

Bad Ass

Badass

Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Architecture

Art

Tricky

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

Competition

Exercise

Good Exercise

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.

Artist

Tiny

Want

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

Different

Goal

Memorial

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Architecture

Built

Way

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.

Artist

Growing Up

White

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Accuracy

Architecture

Art

Artist

Bad Ass

Badass

Blow

Brain

Brother

Built

Character

Childhood

Children

Chinese

Class

College

Competition

Conscious

Crazy

Creating

Creative

Creativity

Cutting

Dad

Definitions

Design

Different

Differentiation

Dream

Earth

Editing

Encouragement

Exercise

Eye

Father

Fatherhood

Fields

Firsts

Flight

Focus

Fog

Forget

Form

Fun

Function

Giving

Goal

Good Exercise

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Quotes by Maya Lin

Maya Lin

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.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can’t be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

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.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

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.

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