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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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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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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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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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To fly, we must have resistance.
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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
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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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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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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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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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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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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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