Quote

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.

Frank Gehry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
Architect
Designer
Furniture Designer
Sculptor
City of Toronto
Frank Owen Gehry
Frank O. Gehry
Ephraim Owen Goldberg
Frank Goldberg
Frank Owen Goldberg
Used
Book
Self
Much
Sketches
Made
Sketch
Way
Loud
Conscious
Thought

More quotes by Frank Gehry

Image
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.I'm not dismissing it.
Frank Gehry
Image
I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
Frank Gehry
Image
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.
Frank Gehry
Image
Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.
Frank Gehry
Image
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
Frank Gehry
Image
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
Frank Gehry
Image
It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.
Frank Gehry
Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.
Frank Gehry
Image
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
Frank Gehry
Image
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.
Frank Gehry
Image
We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
Frank Gehry
Image
We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.
Frank Gehry
Image
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
Frank Gehry
Image
I work from the inside out.
Frank Gehry
Image
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
Frank Gehry
Image
The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.
Frank Gehry
Image
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.
Frank Gehry
Image
I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
Frank Gehry
Image
With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.
Frank Gehry
Image
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
Frank Gehry