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Maya Lin

  • “... war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.”

    • Maya Lin,
    • in New York Times Magazine ()

  • “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.”

    • Maya Lin,
    • in Kristen Golden and Barbara Findlen, Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century ()

Maya Lin, U.S. architectural designer, artist, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

(1959)