Quotes by Frank Gehry

About Frank Gehry:

Frank Owen Gehry is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles.
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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.

Frank Gehry

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

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.

Frank Gehry

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

Frank Gehry

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Frank Gehry

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Frank Gehry

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

Frank Gehry

I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going.

Frank Gehry

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.

Frank Gehry

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

Frank Gehry

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

Frank Gehry

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.

Frank Gehry

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

Frank Gehry

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

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

Frank Gehry

My buildings are all on budget.

Frank Gehry

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Frank Gehry

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Frank Gehry

I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.

Frank Gehry

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

Frank Gehry

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

Frank Gehry

Author Bio

  • NameFrank Gehry
  • DescriptionCanadian-American (b.1929)
  • AliasesFrank Owen Gehry; Frank O. Gehry
  • BornFebruary 28, 1929
  • CountryCanada; United States Of America
  • ProfessionArchitect; Sculptor
  • WorksDZ Bank Building; 8 Spruce Street; Louis Vuitton Foundation For Creation; Walt Disney Concert Hall; Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
  • AwardsAIA Gold Medal; National Medal Of Arts; Pritzker Architecture Prize; Praemium Imperiale; Steiger Award; The Dorothy And Lillian Gish Prize; Wolf Prize; Royal Gold Medal; Companion Of The Order Of Canada; Princess Of Asturias Award - Art