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…

- Michael Arad

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

- Michael Arad

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

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 t…

- Michael Arad

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 …

- Michael Arad

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it…

- Michael Arad

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 peopl…

- Michael Arad

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

- Michael Arad

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

- Michael Arad