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.
From Maya Lin
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
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.
All my work is much more peaceful than I am.
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
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