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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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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
Architect
Designer
Land Artist
Landscape Architect
Printmaker
Sculptor
Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
Art
Willing
Work
Vision
Something
Quite
Clear
Retain
Fighting
Fights
Individual
Familiar
Strong
Integrity
Artist
Remains

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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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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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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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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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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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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
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To fly we have to have resistance.
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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
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The role of art in society differs for every artist.
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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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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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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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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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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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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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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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