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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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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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You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
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It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.
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In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.
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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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We're physiologically wired differently.
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Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.
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In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.
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Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
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Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.
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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 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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People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.
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Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
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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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If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
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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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I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.
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The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.
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