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You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
Frank Gehry
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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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City of Toronto
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People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.
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I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
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Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.
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As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.
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When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.
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My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.
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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.
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If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
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Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.
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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.
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You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.
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Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.
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You can look anywhere and find inspiration.
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Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
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An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
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The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.
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There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
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Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.
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When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.
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