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Frank Gehry Quotes

American - Architect | February 28, 1929 -

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

Architecture Want Dry Dull

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

Good Simple People Design Buildings

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

History World Think Buildings Build

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.

Work Me Table Searching Take Idea

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

Perception Know Overcome How

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. 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.

History Past Think Ignore You Know

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

Work Sometimes Paid Get Refuse Lot

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.

Book Thought Now Sketch Way Out

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Positive Hope Building Driven Would

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

People Think Design Create Looks

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Art Architecture Someone Person New

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

Art People End Budget Place Product

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