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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
Maya Lin
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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
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Landscape Architect
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Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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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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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
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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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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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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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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.
Maya Lin
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
Maya Lin
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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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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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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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'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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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
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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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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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It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
Maya Lin
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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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
Maya Lin
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
Maya Lin
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.
Maya Lin
