Maya Lin
Maya Lin
Maya Ying Linis an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. She first came to fame at the age of 21 as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth5 October 1959
CountryUnited States of America
artist fog groups
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
school thinking artist
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
artist childhood fatherhood
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
father artist firsts
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
college parent want
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
art thinking serendipity
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.
war artist memorial
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.
art artist roles
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
thinking world form
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.
resistance
To fly, we must have resistance.
ideas mind audience
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
teaching
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
exercise competition good-exercise
Competitions are what you do as a good exercise.