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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.
~ Maya Lin
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All my work is much more peaceful than I am.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
~ Maya Lin
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For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya 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.
~ Maya Lin
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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.
~ Maya Lin
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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
~ Maya 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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