My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
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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.
Interpretation
Art is a personal expression that can be more challenging to create than structured works like monuments.
Maya Lin highlights the intrinsic challenge of creating art that is deeply personal, suggesting that true artistic expression comes from a place of self-reflection and authenticity. Unlike grand structures that may follow guidelines and expectations, personal art requires vulnerability and a connection to one's inner self, making it a complex endeavor.
In practice
This quote can be used in an art class to encourage students to explore their personal style.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
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.
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.
I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't think you want to see me in 'Raisin in the Sun'.
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.
You've got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.
I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales.
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