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Maya Lin
October 5, 1959 -
Nationality: American
Category: Architect
Subcategory: American Architect

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

   

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

   

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

   

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

   

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

   

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

   

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

   

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.

   

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

   

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.

   

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

   

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.

   

To fly we have to have resistance.

   

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.

   

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

   

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

   

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.

   

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

   

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

   

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

   

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