Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
From Frank Gehry
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
My buildings are all on budget.
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do 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 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.
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.
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