More From Maya Lin
- "I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."
- "I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
- "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."
More In Nature
- "Books that distribute things… with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again."― Marsilio Ficino
- "I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid."― Richard Russo
- "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."― Jules Verne