Logo
Quote by Maya Lin
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a mon

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

Other quotes by Maya Lin

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. – Maya Lin

Category:
architecture
Author
Maya Lin
Read Quote

If we cant face death, well never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. – Maya Lin

Category:
Death
Author
Maya Lin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
War
category

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. – John Stuart Mill

Category:
War

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britains belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. – James Buchan

Category:
War

If goods don t cross borders, armies will. – Fr

Category:
War

In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out. – William Tecumseh Sherman

Category:
War

Random Quotes

Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller

Category:
good

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people dont know their neighbors, I dont think that technology is at fault. You dont lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding. – John Warnock

Category:
Technology

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. – Francis Schaeffer

Category:
Age

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
Manners