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

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

Frank Gehry

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

Frank Gehry

I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

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

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

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

Frank Gehry

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

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

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

Frank Gehry

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

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

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

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

Frank Gehry

For me, every day is a new thing. 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. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Frank Gehry

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Frank Gehry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Frank Gehry

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry