Author: Frank Gehry

Quotes

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

- Frank Gehry

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

- Frank Gehry

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

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

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

- Frank Gehry

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

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

- Frank Gehry

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

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

- Frank Gehry

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

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

When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.

When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.

- Frank Gehry

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.

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

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