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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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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
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Landscape Architect
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Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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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 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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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 was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
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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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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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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
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