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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.

Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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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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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.
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I work from the inside out.
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I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.
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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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We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.
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People say, This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me. Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.
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My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.
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