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
Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent. — 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
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. — 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
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city… — 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 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 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 the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. — 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
I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential… — 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
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — 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 people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen. — 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
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture.… — 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
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
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 Image
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
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