Frank Gehry

“מעולם לא חזרתי על עצמי – כל פרויקט שלי הוא ייחודי. מי שחושב כך לא בחן את הבניינים שלי ולא ביקר בהם, אלא הסתפק במבט קצר ושטחי.”

“לרוב הבניינים אין תחושה של אנושיות. הם קרים וחסרי חיים. אני מתעניין ברגשות ותנועה ואיך להביע את אלה.”

“אני בוחן את ההיסטוריה, מנסה להבין מה חשב היוצר, מדוע עשו מה שעשו.”

“אתה משתמש במחשב לטובת היצירתיות שלך, אך אינך נותן למחשב להיות היוצר.”

“האדריכלות צריכה לדבר בשפה של זמנה והמקום שלה אבל לשאוף לנצחיות.”

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

“There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.”

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

“I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.”

“Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.”

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

“When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.”

“My buildings are all on budget.”

“I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.”

“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.”

“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.”

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