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 Read Quote
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that’s true in any creative field. Maya Lin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They’re all necessary and they’re all valid. Maya Lin Read Quote
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It’s what you learn, what you think. That’s all that counts. Maya Lin Read Quote
My grandfather, on my father’s side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. Maya Lin Read Quote
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. Maya Lin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
