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 More Quotes by Frank Gehry More Quotes From Frank Gehry I've been told I have the biggest ego in the world and that it manifests itself when you come to me and say, 'I don't like this' or 'I want a change'... and that I relish that because my ego's so big I think I can solve whatever you throw at me and make it even better. I enjoy the interaction and the challenge. Frank Gehry ego challenges thinking A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. Frank Gehry furniture home book 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. Frank Gehry looking-for-work wells gone My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. Frank Gehry creativity stuff father My buildings are all on budget. Frank Gehry budgets building I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. Frank Gehry program building green My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies. Frank Gehry kitchen mean father Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. Frank Gehry environment architecture war Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it. Frank Gehry democracy problem want 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. Frank Gehry service business people art 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. Frank Gehry think design important people
