Top 54 Quotes by Maya Lin

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

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.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

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.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.