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People Quotes by Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry observes that fast‑food places look the same everywhere, yet people still find ways to make rooms interesting. He argues that architecture should serve people and not just be a product for the wealthy. He also mentions that many clients tell architects what to build, even after hiring them.

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You've got to like the people you work with.

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

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I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

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I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

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

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There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -…

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Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag…

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Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use…

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

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In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

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People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

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

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I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

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Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag…

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Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know…

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Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can…

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A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow.…

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

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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it.…

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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…

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When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done…

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

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Generally people are afraid. They pretend they aren’t; it’s part of the denial. We’re all part of it. As much as we…

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I do my best to choose carefully. If I don’t feel that collaboration is going to happen, I say no. Think about…

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I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if…

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Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other…

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I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha…

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

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Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

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

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On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets…

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The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each…

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We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

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There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture.…

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

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In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If…

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Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For…

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

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

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

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The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

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