Frank Gehry Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Frank Gehry on Wise Famous Quotes.
Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.
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.
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.
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.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
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.
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen ...
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
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.
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.
You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.
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.