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. - Maya Lin 1 Share Now -
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. - Maya Lin 2 Share Now -
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. - Maya Lin 3 Share Now -
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. - Maya Lin 4 Share Now -
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. - Maya Lin 5 Share Now -
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. - Maya Lin 6 Share Now -
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. - Maya Lin 7 Share Now -
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. - Maya Lin 8 Share Now -
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. - Maya Lin 9 Share Now -
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. - Maya Lin 10 Share Now -
