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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. "

Frank Gehry

Thinking

Chaos

Democracy

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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. "

" If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. "

" You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature. "

" One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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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. "

" I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "