113 Quotes by Maya Lin

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.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

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

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

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

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

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.