Books Quote by Frank Gehry

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

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

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

— Frank Gehry

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

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

— Frank Gehry

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

— Frank Gehry

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

— Frank Gehry

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

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

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

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

— Frank Gehry

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