Frank Gehry

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

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

"I get that a lot because Ive hung around with a lot of artists and Im very close to a lot of them. Im very involved in their work; I think a lot of my ideas have grown out of it, and that theres been some give and take."

"I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he cant do that, Ive failed."

"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."

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

"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."

"I do think democracy has produced chaos, especially visual. A lot of people dont like it and yearn for nineteenth-century images, forgetting that the politics of those images were different than the democracy we love."