Daniel Libeskind

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.

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.

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.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Buildings are forms of performances.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.