Frank Gehry Quotes - Page 2

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• I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Thinking, Drawing

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• I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Vacation, Knows

  "Looking back at Frank Gehry’s building-bending feats". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 11, 2015.

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• There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

  Frank Gehry

  Eye, Architecture, Great Men

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• 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

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• The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

  Frank Gehry

  Pie, Interaction, Whole

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Let the experience begin!

  Frank Gehry

  Experience

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• We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."

  Frank Gehry

  People, World, Accepting

  Source: amandajbailey.wordpress.com

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• There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.

  Frank Gehry

  Beach, Kids, Parent

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• For me, every day is a new thing.

  Frank Gehry

  New Things

  "A master architect asks, Now what?". "TED" with Richard Saul Wurman, www.ted.com. 2002.

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• 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

  Vacation, People, Generations

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• I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.

  Frank Gehry

  Ideas, Collaboration

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

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Italian, Influence

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• 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

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Architect, Elitist

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Cities, Years

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• 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

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• We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

  Frank Gehry

  People, Boxes

  "Frank Gehry: Playboy Interview". Playboy Magazine, January 2011.

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• The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Rome, Church

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

  Frank Gehry

  Care, Boxes, Knows

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Treats

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Architect, Boxes

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

  Frank Gehry

  Different, Want, Afraid Of Change

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• 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, Ifs, I Can

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• I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

  Frank Gehry

  Home, People, Rich

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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