Maya Lin

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I…

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We’re reaching a…

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she…

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it…

Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have…

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

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet…

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should…

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to…

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I…

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art…

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they…

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an…

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it…

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it’s done. If…