Maya Lin

Every memorial in its time has a different goal. ↗

— Maya Lin

#every #goal #memorial #time

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. ↗

— Maya Lin

#drawn #get #most #never #part

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian-american #bit #denmark #growing #growing up

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now. ↗

— Maya Lin

#evident #frightening #home #how #i

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #because #deliberately #did #eclipsed

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. ↗

— Maya Lin

#i #made #my own #own #play

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

#always #american #ate #comfortable #dinner

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. ↗

— Maya Lin

#approach #architecture #art #both #choose

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #combination #computer #figured #i

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