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To fly we have to have resistance.

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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
Designer
Land Artist
Landscape Architect
Printmaker
Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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Wisdom
Business
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Resistance

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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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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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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
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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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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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My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
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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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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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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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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.
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We were unusually brought up there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
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You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
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