113 Quotes by Maya Lin

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

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

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.