Top 54 Quotes by Maya Lin

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.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

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

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.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

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

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.