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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. "
Frank Gehry
Going
Where
I Can
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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 don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
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" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
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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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" There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. "
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" There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. "
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" You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. "
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" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "
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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. "
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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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" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "
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" My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. "
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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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Architecture
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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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Searching
Me
" 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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People
" I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "
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" When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also. "
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Think
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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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" 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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Architecture
Art
" 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
" I work from the inside out. "
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Out
" I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder. "
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" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "
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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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" 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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" I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "
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