An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening. — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. — Frank Gehry Copy Share
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. — Frank Gehry Copy Share
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious,… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
