Frank Gehry Quotes

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

Work, Insecurity, Working

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

Architecture, Time, Place

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

Forward, Unknown

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

Time, Else, Stuff

For me, every day is a new thing.
Frank Gehry

I work from the inside out.
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

Work, Together, Happen

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

Hope, Mother, Father

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, End, Sometimes

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.
Frank Gehry

Insecurity, Working, Start

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Frank Gehry

Made, Excuses, Behind

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

War, Since, Cold

My buildings are all on budget.
Frank Gehry

Budget, Buildings

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

Work, May, Though

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
Frank Gehry

Feeling, Done, Everyone

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

Work, Looking, Head

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: February 28, 1929

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