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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Maya Lin
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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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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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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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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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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 also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.
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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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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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