Maya Lin

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. ↗

— Maya Lin

#crazy #i #like #loved #nerd

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up. ↗

— Maya Lin

#blow #chemistry #enjoyed #explosives #hanging

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. ↗

— Maya Lin

#designed #ends #futile #i #iii

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #artist #day #did #even

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class. ↗

— Maya Lin

#applied #class #dumbest #first #go

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

— Maya Lin

#got #graduate #graduate school #i #learn

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on. ↗

— Maya Lin

#each #hurry #i #i am #lot

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#back #death #eye #face #into

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

— Maya Lin

#longer #me #mind #mine #part

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. ↗

— Maya Lin

#individual #level #list #names #national