When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I… — 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
Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from,… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If… — 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
Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done… — 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
