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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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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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Make
Entertainers
Things
Celebrities
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Architect
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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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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of 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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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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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 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 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.
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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'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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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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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 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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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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To fly, we must have resistance.
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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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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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