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Top 30 Daniel Libeskind Quotes (2025 Update)

Daniel Libeskind Quote: “I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.”

1. “I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder.”

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

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Daniel Libeskind 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.”

3. “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.”

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Daniel Libeskind 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.”

4. “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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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Daniel Libeskind Quote: “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.”

6. “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.”

7. “Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.”

8. “Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.”

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

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.”

10. “What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “And, yes, I love the process of building.”

11. “And, yes, I love the process of building.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind 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.”

13. “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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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “I’m not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.”

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

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Daniel Libeskind 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.”

15. “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.”

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Daniel Libeskind 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.”

16. “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.”

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

17. “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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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.”

18. “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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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.”

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

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “Well, I think one doesn’t really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.”

22. “Well, I think one doesn’t really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “When you’re a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don’t get fed up too easily.”

23. “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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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “And of course I like Berlin a lot. It’s such an interesting city.”

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

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Daniel Libeskind 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.”

25. “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

Daniel Libeskind Quote: “I don’t get to sleep when I’m in New York. Really. I’m living on adrenaline.”

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

— Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind Quote: “There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.”

27. “There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.”

— Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind 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.”

28. “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.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “Call Berlin. Drop everything we’re doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.”

29. “Call Berlin. Drop everything we’re doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.”

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Daniel Libeskind 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.”

30. “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

Daniel Libeskind Quote: “Gaining experience is good, but it is also an obstacle because in some ways you have to forget what you know. You have to cease being an expert in order to do something new and something good.”

31. “Gaining experience is good, but it is also an obstacle because in some ways you have to forget what you know. You have to cease being an expert in order to do something new and something good.”

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Daniel Libeskind Quote: “The stranger is often a person who can see and understand the context much better than a person who has lived there for a thousand years.”

32. “The stranger is often a person who can see and understand the context much better than a person who has lived there for a thousand years.”

— Daniel Libeskind

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