Frank Gehry

Architect

1929-02-28

Quotes by Frank Gehry

• There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

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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. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

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• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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• Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

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• My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

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• For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

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• I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going.

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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 - simple.

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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 people got work because of Bilbao.

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• It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

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• You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

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• Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

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• 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 Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

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• Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

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• I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.

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• 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 head.

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• 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 it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

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• 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 start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

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