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 More Quotes by Frank Gehry More Quotes From Frank Gehry Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry bad-ass badass talking Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert. Frank Gehry design expression experts Architecture Frank Gehry beautiful drama believe People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same. Frank Gehry artist people thinking Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years. Frank Gehry grandmother creativity fun I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. Frank Gehry bad-ass badass people Your best work is your expression of yourself. Frank Gehry best-work expression I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing. Frank Gehry humanity feelings thinking If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing. Frank Gehry ifs knows In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. Frank Gehry character civilization history You can look anywhere and find inspiration. Frank Gehry inspiration looks That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours. Frank Gehry signatures experts people If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything. Frank Gehry serious responsibility together Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them. Frank Gehry talent kind persons Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent. Frank Gehry ninety building architecture We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not. Frank Gehry banality inevitable accepting Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen. Frank Gehry responsible responsibility way I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally. Frank Gehry play trying people I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing. Frank Gehry drawing mean thinking You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future. Frank Gehry optimistic doubt believe
