American - Architect | October 5, 1959 -
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Maya Lin
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To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
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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.
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To fly we have to have resistance.
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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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I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
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I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
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Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
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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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Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
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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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