For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each ... -Frank Gehry

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Frank Gehry , Architect
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Frank Gehry is a Canadian-American architect, known for his innovative and groundbreaking architectural designs, including the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Frank Gehry Quotes to Explore

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple....
A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create...
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...
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 would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope....
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 S...
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of i...
I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public b...
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...
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 h...

Work Quotes to Explore

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work....
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around....
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it....
It is better to imitate ancient than modern work....
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success....
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work....
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard....
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're ...
Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you ...
I'm just not a guy that loves to eat. I love to work and love to work out. I think I go against all the nutritionists who say you need to do this or n...