Daniel Libeskind Quotes

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• I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is…
• In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes…
• Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine
• I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
• When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
• It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but…
• Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and,…
• There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place…
• Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it.…
• And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special…
• Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
• And, yes, I love the process of building.
• We will work with everybody for the good of New York.
• We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
• It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
• It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
• The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep…
• Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have…

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