Top 54 Quotes by Maya Lin

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

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.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

To fly we have to have resistance.

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

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

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.

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.