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Maya Lin
Maya Lin
American Architect
Born: Oct 5, 1959
Architecture Art Me School War You
Related authors: Christopher Alexander Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Neri Oxman Philip Johnson Thom Mayne
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. Maya Lin
Art Me People Architecture Try Looking Way Give Surroundings Different Different Way
To fly we have to have resistance. Maya Lin
Fly Resistance
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. Maya Lin
Art Architecture Sometimes Think Magical Through Almost Go Childlike Want Process Actually
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. Maya Lin
War You Business People Veterans Building Other Once Memorial Point Point Of View Never Like Because Pry Asked Vietnam View
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. Maya Lin
You Editing Words Down Strip Shape Like Tight Goal Very Just Convey Right Amount Things Need
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. Maya Lin
Freedom Me You Own Incredible Dream Follow Able Calling American Personal American Dream Being Want Your
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it. Maya Lin
Funny You Live Something Through Aware
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. Maya Lin
You Lost Own Think Come Conclusions Dictate Should Viewers Away
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
Dinner Parents Few Our Wilder Out Ate Would Adolescence Had Comfortable Felt Always Go Lot Friends Very Than American Want
For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. Maya Lin
Way Drawn Never Part Most Built Were Get Things
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next. Maya Lin
You Before Nothing Came Might Next Ever Guaranteed
Every memorial in its time has a different goal. Maya Lin
Time Every Memorial Goal Different
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. Maya Lin
Art You Matter Conviction Side Everything Study Smarts Know How Making How Much Brain Question Anything Much Your Help Necessarily
I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd. Maya Lin
Crazy Class School Nerd Studied Like Loved
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
Teacher School Chemistry Out Would Stay Some Liked She Making Up Blow Hanging After After-School Really Teachers Explosives Enjoyed Things
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
War Nature World Monument Futile Memorial Almost Studying Terrifying Passage Ends Should Nowhere Designed Started World War World War III
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on. Maya Lin
Resolved Project Projects Hurry Take Am Lot Very Each
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field. Maya Lin
You Creative Sometimes Field Down Think Thinking True Any Stop Shut
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. Maya Lin
Me Mind Mine Solely Totally Part Idea Longer Terrified Public
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. Maya Lin
School Fine Fine Arts Casting Dean Arts Using Dad Playground University
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
Me Took Tendencies Never Part Failed Still Antisocial Just Against Rebels Activity Level Utterly Fundamentally
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down. Maya Lin
Me You Down Group Setting Anarchist Put Terrible Social Social Group Deep Deep Down
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. Maya Lin
Me Made College Parents Both Traditions Question Authority Want Standards Professors
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
Art Science Architecture Analytically Approach Rather Both Pursue Merging Left Very Than Fields Them Then Separate Choose Things
All my work is much more peaceful than I am. Maya Lin
Work All My Work More Am Than Much Peaceful
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. Maya Lin
You Age Think Some Than Closer Your Teachers Actually
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