Michael Arad Quotes

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

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• I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

  

  Michael Arad
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Decent

• PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

  

  Michael Arad
  • People
  • Performing
  • Heroism

• I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Influence
  • Appreciate
  • Century

• I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.

  

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  • Should
  • Process
  • Engineers

• I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

  

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  • Long
  • Sense
  • Urgency

• How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

  

  Michael Arad
  • People
  • Space
  • Design

• There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Differences
  • Collaboration
  • Landscape

• New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Wanted
  • Along

• For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Progress
  • Construction
  • Arrangements

• I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Problem
  • Series
  • Supporter

• I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Roles
  • Designer

• When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

  

  Michael Arad
  • People
  • Knows
  • Volunteer

• I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Love
  • Outsiders