Author Profile
Maya Lin
1959 • American • Architect
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Collected Meditations
Showing 54 quotesHow we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.— Maya Lin
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.— Maya Lin
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.— Maya Lin
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.— Maya Lin
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.— Maya Lin
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.— Maya Lin
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.— Maya Lin
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.— Maya Lin
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.— Maya Lin
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.— Maya Lin