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
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.
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.
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.
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.
artist want invoke
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
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.
journey artist space
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
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.
art badass bad-ass
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.