I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
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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.Maya Lin
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
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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.
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
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Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
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