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" 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. "
Frank Gehry
People
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" I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form. "
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" You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. "
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" My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. "
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" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "
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" 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. "
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" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "
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" 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. "
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" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "
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" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "
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" 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. "
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" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "
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" There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "
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" 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. "
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" If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. "
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" I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My buildings are all on budget. "
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" I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. "
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" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. "
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" Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff. "
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