Maya Lin

To fly we have to have resistance. ↗

— Maya Lin

#resistance

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

— Maya Lin

#i #i love #love #math #me

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

— Maya Lin

#art #different #different way #give #i

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

#american #american dream #being #calling #dream

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #deal #exist #i #i do

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#against #antisocial #failed #fundamentally #i

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. ↗

— Maya Lin

#thought #warmth

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. ↗

— Maya Lin

#because #building #business #i #into

All my work is much more peaceful than I am. ↗

— Maya Lin

#i #i am #more #much #peaceful

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

#architecture #artist #build #buildings #deliberately