I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change. — 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
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
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… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I've been told I have the biggest ego in the world and that it manifests itself when you come to me and… — 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
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
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
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
Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. — Frank Gehry Copy Share
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. — Frank Gehry Copy Share
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
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
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
The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious,… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got… — Frank Gehry Copy Share
