Frank Gehry Quotes
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 it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
Quotes to Explore
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Any kid in my position coming from being an All-American and all that wants to be the guy that makes all the plays coming into their freshman year.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.
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I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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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 it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
