I'm a do-gooder liberal. Frank Gehry More Quotes by Frank Gehry More Quotes From Frank Gehry The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works. Frank Gehry tables facts ideas 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. Frank Gehry museums people years I work from the inside out. Frank Gehry There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. Frank Gehry sour done stuff You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums. Frank Gehry perfect mean art A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete. Frank Gehry obsolete said ideas I do my best to choose carefully. If I don’t feel that collaboration is going to happen, I say no. Think about it. These projects can involve a five-to-seven-year partnership. If you don’t feel comfortable with someone, you can’t get rid of them. I just walked away from a job for that reason. Every one of these projects is an emotional investment, like falling in love. You’ve got to believe in it and you’ve got to like the people you work with. Frank Gehry falling-in-love love-you believe Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it. Frank Gehry patriotic feel-good people 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. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me. Frank Gehry architecture children art The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. Frank Gehry i-hate architect hate I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning. Frank Gehry hate stuff mean It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different. Frank Gehry signatures different unique When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes. Frank Gehry hockey garden kids The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other. Frank Gehry requirements safety people I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport. Frank Gehry play sports two China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming. Frank Gehry carbon-footprint india cities Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers. Frank Gehry parental architect computer I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical. Frank Gehry alleys waste blind The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history. Frank Gehry rome church beautiful People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else. Frank Gehry wall office people
