113 Quotes by Maya Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance. It’s all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

I’m not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

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.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you’ve lost it.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that’s true in any creative field.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It’s what you learn, what you think. That’s all that counts.

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.

If you don’t remember history accurately, how can you learn?

If we can’t face death, we’ll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.