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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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Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.
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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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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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Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
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There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
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You can look anywhere and find inspiration.
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Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.
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Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
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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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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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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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If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.
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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.
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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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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
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The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
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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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