Quote by Maya Lin
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chines

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they be censored. We were a very insular little family. – Maya Lin

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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

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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say its 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. – Maya Lin

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