220 Quotes by Frank Gehry

When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

We're physiologically wired differently.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.