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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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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
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Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
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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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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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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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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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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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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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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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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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