Top 54 Quotes by Maya Lin

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

To fly we have to have resistance.

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.

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.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

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

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.