I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for … - Maya Lin

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Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Maya Lin

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 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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The role of art in society differs for every artist.

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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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