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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.
Maya Lin
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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
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Landscape Architect
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Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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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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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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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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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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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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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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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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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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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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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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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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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'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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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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