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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
Maya Lin
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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
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Land Artist
Landscape Architect
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Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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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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To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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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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