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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
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
Fruit Creativity Father Windows Had He Stuff Flashes Store Stores Worked Used
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
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
Work People Other Later Ten Only Ten Years Opened Another Because Got Years Lot Asked Museum
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
Work Me Table Fact Take Idea Around Materials Them Works Searching
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
Business Build House Cathedral Chicken Just Regard Desirable
Freedom is from within. Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom Within
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. Frank Lloyd Wright
Finished Building Books About Write He Well Go Now Four
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. Frank Lloyd Wright
Heart Mind Feature Chief
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. Frank Lloyd Wright
Try Wish Believe System Would Totally Someone Only Capitalist
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. Frank Lloyd Wright
Strange Humility Feel Coming Disease
Mechanization best serves mediocrity. Frank Lloyd Wright
Best Technology Mediocrity Serve
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying. Frederick Law Olmsted
Me Consider Way Moral Religious Observe Condition Any Regard Cannot Either Gratifying Slaves
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world. Frei Otto
Today Interior World Space Three Living Think Everything Drawings Eye Tried Object Three-Dimensional Architects Computer Most Always Brain Did Flat Should Monitor Two-Dimensional
I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone. Frei Otto
Time Man Humanity Paradise Everyone Dream Would Dream It Give Only Like Oldest
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. Frei Otto
Future Nature Man Architecture Try Too Much Think Too Secret Everything Architects Tendency Know Course Understand How How Far Doing Go Against Far Much
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity. Frei Otto
Time Me Natural Humanity People Will Drive Whatever Natural Disasters Design Types Following Architectural New Disasters Buildings Doing Been Left Which Poor Poor People Use Help Keep
Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence. Frei Otto
Humane Promote Only Buildings Human Peaceful
The straight line is ungodly. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Line Straight Straight Line
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
You Symptom Our Ruler Moral Carrying Pocket Civilisation New Forbidden Least Disease Just Disintegration Should Your Illiteracy Symbol Basis
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Art Freedom Architecture Long Build Everyone Considered Able Does Exist Cannot Should Planned Present-Day
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