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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.

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 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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Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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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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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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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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A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
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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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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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To fly, we must have resistance.
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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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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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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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If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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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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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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To fly we have to have resistance.
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