23 Frank Gehry Quotes for You to Enjoy

Frank Gehry

American Architect

Born: Feb 28, 1929

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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

Predict Knew Going Where Plan

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

Home Live Books Way Furniture Minimal Stuff Mostly Comfortable Fish Lots Very Lamps Sculpture Stand Paintings Filled Cardboard Thing

My buildings are all on budget. Frank Gehry

Budget Buildings

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. Frank Gehry

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. Frank Gehry

Work Me You Together Architecture Improvise Jazz Think Other Way City Something Like Make Understand Off Trying Liquid Happen Might Work Together Each Play

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

People Finished Important Inevitable Design Think Out Inside Inside-Out Somehow Finished Product Like Looks Lot Get Spaces Create Product Humanistic

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

You Unknown Got Bumble Forward

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. Frank Gehry

Great People Architecture Money Care Live Think Spend Everything See Something House Opera Opera House Go Surrounded Going So Many People Them Many Why Compels Sydney Vacations

I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. Frank Gehry

Insecurity First Approach Project Almost New Like Sure Go Get Did Going Where Sweats Working Each Ever Start

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

Me Feeling Everyone Backlash Buildings Done Movement Against Who

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

Sometimes Tool Marketing Claims Issues Been Green Meaningless Used

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

Sad Time Family Better Father Lost Whatever Hell Nine Worse Both Kitchen Drivers Had He Part Truck Mostly Became Got Were Times Different Mean Companies Lived By The Time

Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. Frank Gehry

Democracy People Build Whatever Thinking Chaos Cities Collision Give Something Guy He Obviously Does Up Want Door Wants Create Creates Next Next Door Means

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. 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

History You Past Think Everything Has-Been Some About Shape Attitudes Come Know Well Traditional Been Very Escape Done Where Want Form Might Ignore Even

When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. Frank Gehry

Government Strength Become Lobby Harvard Out Kind Could Studied Go Government Agencies Person Public Agencies Skills Planning Who Found

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

Thought City Developed Always Linear Motor

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

Work Myself Someone Built Just Being Want Decide Them Then

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

Work Sometimes Unless Lot Get Refuse Paid

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

Scale Always Doing Modest Believed Things

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