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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

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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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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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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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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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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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To fly, we must have resistance.
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To fly we have to have resistance.
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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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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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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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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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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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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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