A biography for Maya Linhasn’t been written yet.
“The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.”
“I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.”
“You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.”
“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's 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.”
“Every memorial in its time has a different goal.”
“You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.”
“I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.”
“Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.”
“How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.”
“If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.”
“Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.”
“Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.”
“We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.”
“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”