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
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.
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.
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.
thinking reason reason-for-everything
I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.
teacher thinking age
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
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.
creativity thinking creative
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
hurt thinking black
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
thinking creating people
I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present
creativity writing thinking
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
landscape saying translate
You just want to translate what you see. I keep saying I am no different from a 19th-century landscape artist.
individual list national reaching time war
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
art character years
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.
chinese letters littles
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.