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