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
There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use… — 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… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
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 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
