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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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #because #harder #make #me

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian-american #bit #denmark #growing #growing up

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. ↗

— Maya Lin

#approach #architecture #art #both #choose

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #combination #computer #figured #i

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #art #aware #become #began

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. ↗

— Maya Lin

#apart #architecture #art #crazy #creatures

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. ↗

— Maya Lin

#almost #architecture #art #childlike #go

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#beaten path #genius #hitherto #path #regions

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#could #first #how #judge #know

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection. ↗