Daniel Libeskind Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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 part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Thinking, People, New Life

  91 Copy quote

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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Steel

  94 Copy quote

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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Meaningful, Badass, Bad Ass

  80 Copy quote

• Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Motivation, Inspiration, Believe

  81 Copy quote

• Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

  Daniel Libeskind

  Risk, Innovative, Tested

  40 Copy quote

• I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Thinking, Creative, Path

  52 Copy quote

• 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.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Thinking, Museums, Names

  41 Copy quote

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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Fashion, Magazines, Next

  "Ignore the critics – Beethoven was "a failure" in their eyes too, says Daniel Libeskind". Interview with Anna Winston, www.dezeen.com. April 11, 2014.

  42 Copy quote

• 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.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Dream, America, Glasses

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

  81 Copy quote

• 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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Interesting, Statistics, Obvious

  46 Copy quote

• We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Cities

  31 Copy quote

• Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Cities, Humanity, Architecture

  "The rise and rise of the skyscraper". edition.cnn.com. July 4, 2005.

  21 Copy quote

• The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Art, Writing, Way

  26 Copy quote

• Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.

  Daniel Libeskind

  People, Advantage, Young

  18 Copy quote

• 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.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

  27 Copy quote

• What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Habit, Shackles

  23 Copy quote

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

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

  24 Copy quote

• 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.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Death, Thinking, Museums

  26 Copy quote

• Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

  Daniel Libeskind

  Spiritual, Looks, Answers

  4 Copy quote

• Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Space, Memorial, Retail

  8 Copy quote

• And, yes, I love the process of building.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Building, Process

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

  20 Copy quote

• 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 also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Beautiful, Cities, Creating

  11 Copy quote

• I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

  Daniel Libeskind

  Mistake, Believe, Ideas

  Daniel Libeskind (1995). “Traces of the Unborn”, University of Michigan College of

  13 Copy quote

• 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 site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Moving, Heart, Soul

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

  8 Copy quote

• I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

  Daniel Libeskind

  New York, Mean, Trying

  "CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.

  13 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin