Top 56 Quotes by Frank Gehry

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

I work from the inside out.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.