82 Quotes by Daniel Libeskind

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder.

The official name of the project is ‘Jewish Museum’ but I have named it ‘Between the Lines’ because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.

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.

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. It’ll get solved and we’ll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.

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

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can’t just think about abstract ideas.

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

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