Maya Lin Architecture Quotations

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

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.

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

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.