Being Quote by Jerry Saltz

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

— Tony Scott

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

— Jean Baudrillard

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of…

— Jerry Saltz

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

— Mario Botta

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental…

— Christo

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic…

— Frank Gehry

Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of…

— Olafur Eliasson

I felt my design point of view was more welcomed in New York, that I could show my collections in the way I wanted…

— Jenny Packham

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

— Jaime Lerner

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

— Christo

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So,…

— Daniel Libeskind