Best Frank Gehry Quotes
- You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. Bumble
- Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do… Anymore
- An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. Architect
- I work from the inside out. From
- Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think… Architecture
- Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in… Consciously
- When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would… Amount
- Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work… Asked
- Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. Architecture
- Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff. Each
- Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. Been
- I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. Built
- I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. Extravagant
- I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. Furniture
- I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. Architecture
- I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. Always Thought
- I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. Building
- I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. Down
- I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. Get Paid
- 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, so… Book
- I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. Acceptable
- If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. Funny
- Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. Architect
- My buildings are all on budget. All
- My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. Creativity