Maya Lin Quotes

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

To fly, we must have resistance.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

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.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

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.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.

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

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

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.

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

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57, 000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.