Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it. Frank Gehry More Quotes by Frank Gehry More Quotes From Frank Gehry I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. Frank Gehry slow-down people 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. Frank Gehry vacation people thinking Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. Frank Gehry visible architecture chicago I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. Frank Gehry driven building would-be 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. Frank Gehry cities want war I'm a do-gooder liberal. 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. Frank Gehry mother father kids My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time. Frank Gehry talking father thinking Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else. Frank Gehry drawing done beautiful Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such. Frank Gehry childhood preparation artist There is an order to our environment, a broader order. Frank Gehry our-environment environment order We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Frank Gehry boxes people It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness. Frank Gehry teacher kids school There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. Frank Gehry movement done feelings 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 harder. Frank Gehry projects bigs people In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. Frank Gehry renaissance architecture artist For me, every day is a new thing. Frank Gehry new-things 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. Frank Gehry shapes done want I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity. Frank Gehry passion opportunity trying I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own. Frank Gehry design space stuff
