Frank Gehry Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.”