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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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A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
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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 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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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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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 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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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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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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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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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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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 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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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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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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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 parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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To fly, we must have resistance.
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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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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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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
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