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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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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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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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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
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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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Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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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'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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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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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 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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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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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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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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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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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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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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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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