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Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

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 found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.
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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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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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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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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
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That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.
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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
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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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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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Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
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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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I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
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If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.
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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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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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Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.
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