Daniel Libeskind

“Drawing is the most important thing. It's the soul of architecture.”

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

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

“The city is a text, a complex text that is not created by a single hand.”

“Memory is not just a theme, it's the foundation of architecture.”

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

“Life is not a dress rehearsal.”

“What is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see in themselves.”

“Architecture is a communicative art, and it has to communicate on many levels.”

“I believe that architecture is a spiritual and ethical practice.”

“You have to have a dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you.”

“Buildings are not simply expressive of sentiment, but they are also instruments of sentiment.”

“I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important as content.”