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You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
Written by Frank Gehry
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Written by Frank Gehry
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.
Written by Frank Gehry
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 like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
Written by Frank Gehry
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.
Written by Frank Gehry
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.
Written by Frank Gehry
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.
Written by Frank Gehry
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Written by Frank Gehry
I work from the inside out.
Written by Frank Gehry
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 my work - though not consciously.
Written by Frank Gehry
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 this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Written by Frank Gehry
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
Written by Frank Gehry
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.
Written by Frank Gehry
My buildings are all on budget.
Written by Frank Gehry
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 to anything. My mother also.
Written by Frank Gehry
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
Written by Frank Gehry
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.
Written by Frank Gehry
Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
Written by Frank Gehry
This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
Written by Frank Gehry
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
Written 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 might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
Written by Frank Gehry
When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.
Written by Frank Gehry
I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
Written by Frank Gehry
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Written by Frank Gehry
You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.
Written by Frank Gehry
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.
Written by Frank Gehry
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 major public buildings.
Written by 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 doesn't hold up.
Written by Frank Gehry
There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.
Written by Frank Gehry
I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
Written by Frank Gehry

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