I think I've always had an activist stance, yet at the same time, the other side of me - and this is where some people just don't get it, or they'd prefer it if the work was a lot uglier, a lot louder - I have this personality where I just want to put something out that's a fact and then let you interpret it. It's almost as if you might barely notice it, you might walk right by it, but you have to pay attention.
Maya LinWhen I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
Maya LinI went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
Maya LinThe process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
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