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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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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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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 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 begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
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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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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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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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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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To fly we have to have resistance.
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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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My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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