The role of art in society differs for every artist. - Maya Lin

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They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Maya Lin

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

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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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It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

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I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

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

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