Daniel Libeskind
Architect
1946-05-12
Quotes by Daniel Libeskind
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The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.
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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.
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Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
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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.
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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.
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Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
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When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
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