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I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

— Frank Gehry Helen D. Hume (2010)

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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Life is chaotic, dangerous, and surprising. Buildings should reflect that.

I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989)

I do think democracy has produced chaos, especially visual. A lot of people don't like it and yearn for nineteenth-century images, forgetting that the politics of those images were different than the democracy we love.

Barbara Isenberg (2012)

[ Brancusi ] has had more influence on my work than most architects.

Frank Gehry in: Caroline Evensen Lazo (2005)

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Rich windows that exclude the light,
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