Daniel Libeskind Quotes

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

The future of architecture is culture.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.