Quotes
Authors
Daniel Libeskind

"I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197"

Source : Daniel Libeskind (1995). “Traces of the Unborn”, University of Michigan College of

Daniel Libeskind

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“Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.”
“Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.”
“All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”

Source : Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have to decide whether to keep it, or give it away to where their minority status makes them permanently powerless and vulnerable.”
“The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.”
“I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer or a fashion photographer.”
“There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.”
“One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.”

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