220 Quotes by Frank Gehry

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.

I don’t know how to overcome this perception that I’m extravagant.

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.

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.

Time is just a blur for me. I don’t know what – I don’t even know where I am sometimes.

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.

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.

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

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.