Michael Arad Quotes

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• For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.
• How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?
• I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
• I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems…
• I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe…
• I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a…
• I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
• I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the…
• It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of…
• New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live…
• PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they…
• You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
• When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly…
• As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future…
• I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.
• I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
• I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my…
• There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.
• You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

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