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Maya Lin Biography

Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American designer, architect and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. She achieved national recognition at the age of 21 while still an undergraduate at Yale University when her design was chosen in a national competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is considered one of the most influential memorials of the post-World War II period.

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Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Architecture, Minimalists, Thought, Warmth

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

Death, Eye, Light, Look, Overcoming, Turn

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.

Architecture, Art, Harder, Monuments, Tricky

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Art, Artist, Integrity, Remains, Strong, Vision

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.

Artist, Children, Evident, Home, Living

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

Art, Bad Ass, Badass, People, Surroundings

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Artist, Fog, Groups, Down, Deep, Anarchist

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

Artist, Artists, Invoke, Necessary, Valid, Want

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Love, Peace, Peaceful, Work

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.

American, Dream, Follow, Incredible, Life, Positive

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Approach, Artist, Definitions, Lives, War

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

Form, Interested, Think, Thinking, World

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.

Artist, Extracurricular, Fundamentally, Level, Levels, Rebel

war is not just a victory or loss. . . People die.

Die, Loss, People, Victory, War

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

Made, Play, World

Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.

Competition, Competitions, Exercise, Good, Good Exercise

I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

Cutting, Earth, Loss, Pain, Quite, Sharp

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Artist, Away, Come, Dictate, Lost, Thinking

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Artist, Asian, Hurt, Opposition, Served, Thinking

I can't shout out, "Do this. " I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always operated, whether it's a historical fact or a scientific fact, and then you actually have to connect it in your brain.

Brain, Connect, Give, Giving, Historical, Operated

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