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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

Topics: Building Choice Choices Frank Freedom Like Look Make Point Signature Starts You

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Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Architecture City Each Happen Improvise Jazz Like Liquid Make Me Might Off Other Play Something Think Together Trying Understand Way Work Work Together You I Think

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I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

~Frank Gehry

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My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Creativity Father Flashes Fruit Had He Store Stores Stuff Used Windows Worked

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I work from the inside out.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Inside Out Work

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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 hold up.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: About Architecture Art Ask Hold Houses Lot People Pretty Questions Think Tract Up Whether Who

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There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Buildings Categories Design Financially Good People Simple Technically Those Two Who

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I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Get Lot Paid Refuse Sometimes Unless Work

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I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Always Believed Doing Modest Scale Things

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Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

~Frank Gehry

Topics: Always Gone Head Hit Just Looking Me Never Out Really Sort Waited Well Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: February 28th, 1929

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