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I do my best to choose carefu...

I do my best to choose carefully. If I don’t feel that collaboration is going to happen, I say no. Think about it. These projects can involve a five-to-seven-year partnership. If you don’t feel comfortable with someone, you can’t get rid of them. I just walked away from a job for that reason. Every one of these projects is an emotional investment, like falling in love. You’ve got to believe in it and you’ve got to like the people you work with.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

Just because you are an archi...

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

There are places that are so ...

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

We deny our nature to build a...

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

It's a metaphor for what we'r...

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

My father always told me that...

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.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

I am obsessed with architectu...

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

As much as we pretend otherwi...

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

The message I hope to have se...

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

Your best work is your expres...

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

If you're serious about being...

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.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

When people condemn me for de...

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings a...

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

In the art world Robert Rausc...

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

The culture of France is uniq...

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

Everyone has a desire, if not...

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.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

I'm of two minds about doing ...

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.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

I'm inspired by a lot of stuf...

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

It's not elitist to acknowled...

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

Frank Gehry 89 quotes

Look, architecture has a lot ...

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 89 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....