"I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form."

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Source : Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

Maya Lin

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“If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.”
“Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because youre not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.”
“We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)”
“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”
“Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.”
“The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.”
“He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.”

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