Top 56 Quotes by Frank Gehry

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

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.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

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

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

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.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.