Frank Gehry quotes - page 5

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. (Frank Gehry)
My buildings are all on budget. View quote
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My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. View quote
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I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. View quote
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In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top. View quote
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Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. View quote
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Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it. View quote
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Talent is liquified trouble. View quote
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. View quote
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A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. View quote
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I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much. (Frank Gehry)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. View quote
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My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies. View quote
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I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. View quote
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This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. View quote
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