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Maya Lin Inspirational Quotes (42)

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Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.
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I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.
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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
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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.
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Sometimes I think creativity is magic it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
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I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
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To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
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To fly we have to have resistance.
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A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
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I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.
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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.
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