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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. "
Frank Gehry
Look
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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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" Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. "
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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'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. "
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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 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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" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
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" I work from the inside out. "
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" 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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" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "
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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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" 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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" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "
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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 can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "
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" There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. "
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" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "
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" One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. "
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" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "
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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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" There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. "
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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 refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "
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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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