Famous Quotes

"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."

Daniel Libeskind on Design

More quotes about Design

• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

  Steve Jobs on Design

• "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

  Walt Disney on Design

• "The artist in me cries out for design."

  Robert Frost on Design

• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

• "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

  Erma Bombeck on Design

More quotes by Daniel Libeskind

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

• "Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."

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

• "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."

• "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."