Maya Lin Quotes

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

I know there's a creative side to artists to - pardon me - there's a creative side to scientists already, but there may be an artistic side, too, waiting to break free.

We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Art is an investigation.

Art is science made clear.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.