Frank Gehry quotes - page 4

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. (Frank Gehry)
There are places that are so designed they're unlivable. View quote
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Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use. View quote
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Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world. View quote
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Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new. View quote
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I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. View quote
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There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. View quote
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Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. View quote
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You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff. (Frank Gehry)
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao. View quote
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With computers we can work everything out from the beginning. View quote
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People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need. View quote
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China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming. View quote
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Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. View quote
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I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush. View quote
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Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries. View quote
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Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it. View quote
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If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. View quote
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The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other. (Frank Gehry)
I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything. View quote
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We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction. View quote
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Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try. View quote
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I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. View quote
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