I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. Frank Gehry More Quotes by Frank Gehry More Quotes From Frank Gehry I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means. Frank Gehry vacationknowsmean The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. Frank Gehry being-yourselfartistadvice We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial. Frank Gehry denialconformitypeople I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you. Frank Gehry citiesyearsthinking Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist. Frank Gehry elitistarchitectartist 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. Frank Gehry sweatworkmotivational We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Frank Gehry acceptingpeopleworld 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. Frank Gehry citiesplaythinking I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't. Frank Gehry richhomepeople 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 better, and that the collaborative interaction works. Frank Gehry interactionpiewhole An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. Frank Gehry schedulespeopleart Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me. Frank Gehry doechildrenart One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Frank Gehry influenceitalianartist 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. Frank Gehry signatureschoiceslooks Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in. Frank Gehry architecturesomewhere-elsemen 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. Frank Gehry vacationgenerationspeople As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change. Frank Gehry afraid-of-changedifferentwant What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse. Frank Gehry librarycommunityart We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried. Frank Gehry literaturecivilizationart 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 and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it. Frank Gehry gamesplayfeelings
