Top 17 Daniel Libeskind Quotes

When you‘re a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don’t get fed up too easily.

It’s a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It’s such an interesting city.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

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 for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

I don’t get to sleep when I’m in New York. Really. I’m living on adrenaline.

I’m not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

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 – really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It’s just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

It’s a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That’s faith for you. There’s such a strong spirit here.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

We will work with everybody for the good of New York.