American - Architect | October 5, 1959 -
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
Maya Lin
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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.
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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
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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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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.
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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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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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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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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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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
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