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

Maya Lin · Architecture

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Maya Lin

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.

Freedom

Maya Lin

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Architecture

Maya Lin

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.

War

Maya Lin

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.

War