Maya Lin Thinking Quotations

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

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

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

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.