Maya Lin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Maya Lin quotes and sayings page 2 (65 year old architect). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 54 we have for her.
“I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.”
“My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.”
“I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.”
“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.”
“Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.”
“It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.”
“I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.”
“I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.”
“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.”
“It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.”
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