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.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

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.

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.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

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