Frank Gehry Quotes

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.

I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I'm getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my stacks of wood and what I can do with it.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

My talents do not lie in DIY.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

I've always loved creating things with my hands.

I actually built my own dining table back home in Australia. It's a secret hobby of mine that I weirdly find transfixing.