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 architecture function
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
war artist memorial
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.
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.
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.
children home artist
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.
art artist would-be
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
artist levels rebel
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 want tiny
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
artist projects
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
thinking artist should
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.