Best Frank Gehry Sayings
- One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Artist
- The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea… Fact
- There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple. Building
- Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the… Always Waited
- And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me… Anything Else
- A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to… Aesthetes
- I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their… All
- I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You… Car
- I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to… Architecture
- My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were… Became
- On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be… Big
- The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra… Audience
- You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like… Building
- In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. Character
- This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. Cold
- Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at… Architect
- There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. Grapes