Frank Gehry Quotes & Sayings
56 most famous Frank Gehry quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 95 year old American architect born on Feb 28, 1929.
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.”
“Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.”
“The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.”
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