Explore Quotes by Frank Gehry

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

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.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

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

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

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

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

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

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

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.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

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.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

For me, every day is a new thing. 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. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

I work from the inside out.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.