Maya Lin

To fly we have to have resistance.

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.

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.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.