Maya Lin's Quotes

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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of...

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57 000 names. We're reaching...

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument...

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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry...

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the...

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You should be having more fun in high school exploring things because you...

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life and it wasn't...

How we are using up our home how we are living and polluting the planet is...

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

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To me the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling....

When I was very little we would get letters from China in Chinese and...

If we can't face death we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight...

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the...

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial I never once asked the veterans...

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder...

I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic...

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If...

The process I go through in the art and the architecture I actually want it...

I left science then I went into art but I approach things very...

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as...

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture I pursue it as an...

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

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

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