Maya Lin Quotes

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I can concentrate on my art.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.