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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
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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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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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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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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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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of 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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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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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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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 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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To fly, we must have resistance.
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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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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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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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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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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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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.
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