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Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.
Frank Gehry
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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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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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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.
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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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One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.
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We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.
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I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
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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.
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Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.
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Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
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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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If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.
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Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.
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You can't ignore history you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
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