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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.

Maya Lin

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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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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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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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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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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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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 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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To fly we have to have resistance.
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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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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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