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
art artist roles
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
art dad school
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.
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 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.
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.
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
war artist views
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
art badass bad-ass
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
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.
art brain matter
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.
artist projects
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
art crazy rip
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.
art strong integrity
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.
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.