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.
From Maya Lin
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.
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
To fly we have to have resistance.
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.
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.
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
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.
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.
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