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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. "
Frank Gehry
Fact
Searching
Me
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" One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. "
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" 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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" 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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" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "
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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 refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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 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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" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
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