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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
Architect
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Furniture Designer
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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'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.
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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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If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
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I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
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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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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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The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
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Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a beautiful context for life's drama.
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I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don'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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Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
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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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Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.
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