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Your best work is your expression of yourself.

Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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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.
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I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
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The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.
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For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
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If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.
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Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
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I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.
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Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.
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Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.
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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me.
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