Architecture Quotes by Frank Gehry

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

— Frank Gehry

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

— Frank Gehry

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

— Frank Gehry

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

— Frank Gehry

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

— Frank Gehry

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

— Frank Gehry

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

— Frank Gehry

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for…

— Frank Gehry

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

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

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

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city…

— Frank Gehry

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

— Frank Gehry

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

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

— Frank Gehry

That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert…

— Frank Gehry

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

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

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

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It…

— Frank Gehry

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to…

— Frank Gehry

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something.…

— Frank Gehry

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to…

— Frank Gehry

I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the…

— Frank Gehry

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

— Frank Gehry

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

— Frank Gehry

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

— Frank Gehry

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

— Frank Gehry

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art…

— Frank Gehry

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for…

— Frank Gehry

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people…

— Frank Gehry

People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture,…

— Frank Gehry

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people…

— Frank Gehry

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations…

— Frank Gehry

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to…

— Frank Gehry

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us…

— Frank Gehry

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

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

— Frank Gehry