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. - Frank Gehry 1 Share Now -
You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature. - Frank Gehry 3 Share Now -
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. - Frank Gehry 4 Share Now -
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. - Frank Gehry 5 Share Now -
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. - Frank Gehry 6 Share Now -
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. - Frank Gehry 7 Share Now -
My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies. - Frank Gehry 8 Share Now -
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. - Frank Gehry 9 Share Now -
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. 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. - Frank Gehry 10 Share Now -
