Frank Gehry Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Bad Ass #People #Ass

“Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Talent #Kind #Persons

“The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Being Yourself #Self Esteem #Copying

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Badass #Bad Ass #Talking

“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

#Motivational #Work #Sweat

“Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Expression #Design #Experts

“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

#Art #People #Schedules

“I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Eye #Thinking #Hands

“The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Being Yourself #Artist #Advice

“There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Simple #Two #People

“Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a beautiful context for life's drama.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Beautiful #Drama #Believe

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

#Life #Success #Famous Inspirational

“Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Men #Architecture

“Your best work is your expression of yourself.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Expression #Best Work

“In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Character #Civilization #History

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

#People #Slow Down

“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

#Plans

“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

#Would Be #Building #Driven

“I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Book #Self #Way

“I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Green #Building #Program

“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

#Thinking #Play #Cities

“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

#Mother #Father #Kids

“Let the experience begin!”
-- Frank Gehry

#Experience

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

#Issues #Marketing #Tools

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

#Want

“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

#Father #Mean #Kitchen

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

#Cities #Downtown #Linear

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

#Perception #Overcoming

“I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.”
-- Frank Gehry

#Hands #Woodworking #Furniture

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

#Dry #Dull #Want