220 Quotes by Frank Gehry

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.

You can’t ignore history; you can’t escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

I love working. I don’t know what the word vacation means.

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.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you’re the only expert.

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

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

Democracy is a problem and we don’t want to get rid of it.

If you know where it’s going, it’s not worth doing.