Maya Lin

Famous quotes by Maya Lin:

"To fly we have to have resistance."

"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."

"You just want to translate what you see. I keep saying I am no different from a 19th-century landscape artist."

"I wanted to create a hill indoors. This is the only imaginary landscape [in the exhibit]."

"We, as a species, never understood how we have changed [the environment]."

"I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."

"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."

"All my work is much more peaceful than I am."

"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."

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

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Is Chicago's Flamingo endangered? Could be, as Trump fires team responsible for federal artwork

Chicago Sun-Times 20 Mar 2025

Editorial ... Nationally, the GSA's art collection is a wide assortment of collector-quality sculptures, paintings and other art created by top-tier artists such as Jacob Lawrence and Maya Lin — most of it accessible and visible to the public ... ....

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Trump administration slashes division in charge of 26,000 U.S. artworks

The Spokesman-Review 11 Mar 2025

The GSA did not immediately respond to a request for comment ... Since 1974, the GSA has commissioned more than 500 works by artists for public plazas and federal offices, among them Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly and Maya Lin.

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On Artists’ Potential to Change the World: An Interview With Aspen Art Museum Director Nicola Lees

New York Observer 06 Mar 2025

Paul Chan, Aria Dean, Álvaro Enrigue, Zoë Hitzig, Glenn Ligon, Maya Lin and Francis Kéré ... It’s also where Maya Lin last visited in 1983—alongside Steve Jobs when he gave his seminal speech on technology and design.

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For NPR's Terry Gross, it's all about understanding. See why at this NJ appearance

northjersey.com 03 Mar 2025

That's why she understands what Johnny Cash, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Maya Angelou, Meryl Streep, James Baldwin, Carrie Fisher, Elton John, Robin Williams, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Susan Sontag, Bradley ...

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Is Chicago's Flamingo endangered? Could be, as Trump fires team responsible for federal artwork

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On Artists’ Potential to Change the World: An Interview With Aspen Art Museum Director Nicola Lees

For NPR's Terry Gross, it's all about understanding. See why at this NJ appearance

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