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Maya Lin Quote: “My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.”

51. “My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.”

Maya Lin Quote: “I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It’s what you learn, what you think. That’s all that counts.”

52. “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 Quote: “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.”

53. “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 Quote: “All my work is much more peaceful than I am.”

54. “All my work is much more peaceful than I am.”

Maya Lin Quote: “I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.”

55. “I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.”

Maya Lin Quote: “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.”

56. “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 Quote: “Every memorial in its time has a different goal.”

57. “Every memorial in its time has a different goal.”

Maya Lin Quote: “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.”

58. “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 Quote: “Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have.”

59. “Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have.”

Maya Lin Quote: “I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present.”

60. “I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present.”

Maya Lin Quote: “You couldn’t put me in a social group setting. I’m probably a terrible anarchist deep down.”

61. “You couldn’t put me in a social group setting. I’m probably a terrible anarchist deep down.”

Maya Lin Quote: “I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.”

62. “I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.”

Maya Lin Quote: “I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.”

63. “I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.”

Maya Lin Quote: “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.”

64. “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 Quote: “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.”

65. “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 Quote: “OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.”

66. “OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.”

Maya Lin Quote: “Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.”

67. “Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.”

Maya Lin Quote: “I’m as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we’re doing to the world around us.”

68. “I’m as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we’re doing to the world around us.”

Maya Lin Quote: “You really can’t function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I’m an architect. I’m an artist. I make things.”

69. “You really can’t function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I’m an architect. I’m an artist. I make things.”

Maya Lin Quote: “Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They’re all necessary and they’re all valid.”

70. “Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They’re all necessary and they’re all valid.”

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