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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.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Book Got Loud Made Much Now Out Self-Conscious Sketch Sketches Then Thought Used Way

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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Affect Any Architecture Art Even New Person Place Profoundly Save Someone Sometimes Transform

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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

Topics: Became Better Both By The Time Companies Different Drivers Family Father Got Had He Hell Kitchen Lived Lost Mean Mostly Nine Part Sad Time Times Truck Were Whatever Worse

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I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Extravagant How Know Overcome Perception

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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

Topics: Architect Art Budget Call End Given Least People Place Product Program Rises Schedule Sometimes

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When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Agencies Become Could Found Go Government Harvard Kind Lobby Out Person Planning Public Skills Strength Studied Who

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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.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Books Cardboard Comfortable Filled Fish Furniture Home Lamps Live Lots Minimal Mostly Paintings Sculpture Stand Stuff Thing Very Way

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You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Bumble Forward Got Unknown You

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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

Topics: Acceptable Building Driven Hope Intellectually Like Make Positive Would

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Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Again Each Fuels Healthy Insecurity Life Like Lot Over Project Starting Starting Over Stuff Suffer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: February 28th, 1929

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