Quote

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

Frank Gehry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
Architect
Designer
Furniture Designer
Sculptor
City of Toronto
Frank Owen Gehry
Frank O. Gehry
Ephraim Owen Goldberg
Frank Goldberg
Frank Owen Goldberg
Conformity
Denial
Celebrate
Variety
Express
Allow
Rather
People

More quotes by Frank Gehry

Image
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.
Frank Gehry
Image
If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.
Frank Gehry
Image
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
Image
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.
Frank Gehry
Image
I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
Frank Gehry
Image
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
Frank Gehry
Image
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.
Frank Gehry
Image
In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.
Frank Gehry
Image
One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.
Frank Gehry
Image
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.
Frank Gehry
Image
As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.
Frank Gehry
Image
People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.
Frank Gehry
Image
Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.
Frank Gehry
Image
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
Frank Gehry
Image
Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.
Frank Gehry
Image
Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.
Frank Gehry
Image
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
Frank Gehry
Image
Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.
Frank Gehry
Image
You can look anywhere and find inspiration.
Frank Gehry
Image
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
Frank Gehry