Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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.

Frank Gehry
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
Frank Gehry

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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
Frank Gehry

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

I work from the inside out.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry
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
Frank Gehry

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry
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
Frank Gehry

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.

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.