About Maya Lin: Maya Ying Lin is an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. She first came to fame at the age of 21 as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
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.
Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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.
All my work is much more peaceful than I am.
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
