"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

#War Quotes #Artist Quotes #Memorial Quotes

“The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.”
“With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?”

Source : James Crawford (1992). “Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don't know how to figure out what they mean. I can't tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return.”
“What good is strength if you have no sense?”
“...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
“With each person our heart loves, our soul becomes stronger.”
“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and architecture. You can't ignore what's around you, but at the same time, an artist who has a sophisticated form language knows how to pull in different elements, and readjust and redirect those. . . . So it becomes an engineering process, too.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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