“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 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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“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”
— Maya Lin
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“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
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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 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 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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“You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.”
— 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 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
Author: Maya Lin
Category: art
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