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
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 Copy Share Image
Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each… — 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
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can… — 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
