Frank Gehry quotes - page 5

Frank Gehry is a Canadian-American architect renowned for his innovative and unconventional building designs. Iconic works like the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall have made a significant impact on contemporary architecture. He is celebrated worldwide for pushing the boundaries of architectural form and creativity. Here are 117 of his quotes:

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

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

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

Frank Gehry

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Frank Gehry

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

Frank Gehry

Talent is liquified trouble.

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

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

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.

Frank Gehry

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.

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

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.

Frank Gehry

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

Frank Gehry

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

Frank Gehry