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To fly, we must have resistance.

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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 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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If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?
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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 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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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 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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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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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
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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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Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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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'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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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 have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
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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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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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It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
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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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