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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."

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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."

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Amber Hurdle

"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

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Amber Hurdle

"Custom is second nature."

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Amber Hurdle

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."

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Amber Hurdle

"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"

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Amber Hurdle

"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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Maya Lin
"Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field."

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Maya Lin
"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."

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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."

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Maya Lin
"The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost."

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Maya Lin
"If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light."

Death

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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."

Time

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Maya Lin
"Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid."

Thought

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Maya Lin
"It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like."

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Maya Lin
"You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down."

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Maya Lin
"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me."

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