Frank Gehry quotes - page 3

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial. (Frank Gehry)
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist. View quote
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I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care. View quote
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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. View quote
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I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't. View quote
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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. View quote
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We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried. View quote
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The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it. View quote
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I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience. View quote
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That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work. View quote
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You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature. (Frank Gehry)
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in. View quote
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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. View quote
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Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. View quote
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When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't. View quote
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We're physiologically wired differently. View quote
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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. View quote
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You've got to like the people you work with. View quote
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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. View quote
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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. View quote
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You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you. (Frank Gehry)
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad? View quote
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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. View quote
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It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different. View quote
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When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet. View quote
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