US "architect, sculptor".
"She designed the Vietnam War Memorial, dedicated 1982; also designed the memorial to those who have died in the civil rights movement, 1988."
"If you don't learn history accurately, how can you learn?"
"Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole."
"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
To fly we have to have resistance.
"You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist, I make things."
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Published Sources for
the above Quotations:
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"In "First She Looks Inward," by Jonathan Coleman, "Time" 6 Nov 1989."
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"In "First She Looks Inward," by Jonathan Coleman, "Time" 6 Nov 1989."
A:
"On her design for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, in "Nation,"al Geographic May 1985."
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K:
"In "First She Looks Inward," by Jonathan Coleman, "Time" 6 Nov 1989."
