113 Quotes by Maya Lin

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present.

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

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won’t necessarily help you in making art.

Math, it’s a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

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.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it’s not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

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