220 Quotes by Frank Gehry

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

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.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

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.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

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.