220 Quotes by Frank Gehry

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.

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

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

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

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 never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

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

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.