Author: Frank Gehry

Quotes

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

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.

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.

- Frank Gehry

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

- 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

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

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

- Frank Gehry

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

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

I work from the inside out.

I work from the inside out.

- Frank Gehry

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