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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
Frank Gehry
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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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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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Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.
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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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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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The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
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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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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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Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.
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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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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.
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I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
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If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
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