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" I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "
Frank Gehry
Things
Furniture
Hands
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" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "
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Best
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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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Thinking
Chaos
Democracy
" 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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Great
Architecture
Live
" 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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World
Think
Build
" 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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Me
Architecture
City
" One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. "
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Artist
Italian
Influences
" I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. "
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Down
Lot
People
" 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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Over
Insecurity
Healthy
" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
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Place
Architecture
Time
" 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. "
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Want
Back
Cold
" 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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Way
Furniture
Fish
" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
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Dull
Dry
Want
" You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. "
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Forward
Got
Bumble
" 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. "
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Service
Architecture
Art
" 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. "
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Think
Art
Architecture
" 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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Start
Working
Insecurity
" There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. "
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Sour
Done
Grapes
" 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. "
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Looking
Never
Work
" An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "
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Budget
Product
Place
" 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. "
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Time
Meetings
People
" 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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Think
You
Past
" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "
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Green
Tool
Sometimes
" 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. "
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Go
You
Understand
" This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. "
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Me
Home
Weird
" 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. "
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People
Got
Only
" There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple. "
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Design
Good
People
" 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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Look
Sails
People
" 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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Government
Strength
Skills
" 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. "
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Look
Freedom
Choices
" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "
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Work
Decide
Someone