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Top Maya Lin Quotes

Browse top 18 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Maya Lin.

Favorite Maya Lin Quotes

1. "To fly we have to have resistance." ~ Maya Lin
2. "To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom." ~ Maya Lin
3. "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
4. "Every memorial in its time has a different goal." ~ Maya Lin
5. "Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have." ~ Maya Lin
6. "I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on." ~ Maya Lin
7. "How 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
8. "If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light." ~ Maya Lin
9. "It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like." ~ Maya Lin
10. "My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground." ~ Maya Lin
11. "Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next." ~ Maya Lin
12. "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
13. "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." ~ Maya Lin
14. "All my work is much more peaceful than I am." ~ Maya Lin
15. "I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world." ~ Maya Lin
16. "Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles." ~ Maya Lin
17. "Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist." ~ Maya Lin
18. "I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd." ~ Maya Lin

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There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens."
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