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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Lost Individual Modern

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.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Time Veterans Names

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin School Think You

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

Maya Lin School Chemistry She

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Art Me People

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Art Crazy Start

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

Maya Lin Life Art Character

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.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Artist Want Build

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.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Art Want Think

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Art Yourself Me

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

Maya Lin Art Science Approach

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Loved Logic Perfect

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

Maya Lin Love School Competition

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

Maya Lin War Veterans Vietnam War

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.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin Child Living Now

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

~ Maya Lin

Maya Lin American Dream American Me
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