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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 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

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. ↗

— Maya Lin

#hindsight #indeed #like #only #realize

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field. ↗

— Maya Lin

#completely #creative #down #field #i

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

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family. ↗

— Maya Lin

#china #chinese #family #get #i

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. ↗

— Maya Lin

#come #conclusions #dictate #lost #own

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. ↗

— Maya Lin

#because #competition #explore #exploring #fun

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#brothers #cause #chicago #during #farm