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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. "

Frank Gehry

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

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

" This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. "

Frank Gehry

Home

Weird

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My buildings are all on budget. "

Frank Gehry

Buildings

Budget

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

" I work from the inside out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple. "

" My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "

" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "

" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "

Frank Gehry

Building

Positive

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

Frank Gehry

Architecture

City

" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

" You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. "

" There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. "

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

Frank Gehry

Places

Chicago