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If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing. — Frank Gehry

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. — Frank Gehry

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff. — Frank Gehry

Let the experience begin! — Frank Gehry

For me, every day is a new thing. — Frank Gehry

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. — Frank Gehry

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see what he'd do. — Hugh Hardy

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple. — Frank Gehry

Talent is liquified trouble. — Frank Gehry

You can look anywhere and find inspiration. — Frank Gehry

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. — Frank Gehry

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience ... — Frank Gehry

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff. — Frank Gehry

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. — Frank Gehry

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. — Frank Gehry

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. — Frank Gehry

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. — Frank Gehry

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. — Frank Gehry

I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. — Frank Gehry

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. — Frank Gehry

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. — Frank Gehry

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

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. — Frank Gehry

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

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. — 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

You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you. — Frank Gehry

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. — Frank Gehry

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. — Frank Gehry

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. — Frank Gehry

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it. — Frank Gehry

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. — Frank Gehry

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. — Frank Gehry

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same. — Frank Gehry

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes. — Frank Gehry

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

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. — Frank Gehry

I work from the inside out. — Frank Gehry

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them. — Frank Gehry

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. — Frank Gehry

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. — Frank Gehry

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen ... — Frank Gehry

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry. — Jay Chiat

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means. — Frank Gehry

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. — Frank Gehry

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

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

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it. — Pharrell Williams

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future. — Frank Gehry

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — Frank Gehry

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

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. — Frank Gehry

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. — Frank Gehry

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. — Frank Gehry

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture ... like Van Gogh ... so who's to say what's good and bad? — Frank Gehry

My buildings are all on budget. — Frank Gehry

It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works. — William McDonough

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. — Frank Gehry

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top. — Frank Gehry