Maya Lin Quotes

Insight is the first condition of Art.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Modeling isn't boring.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

The artist must ask you to think of the world in a different way, and sometimes it's a more abstract way; sometimes it's a completely different kind of colouring.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.