Frank Gehry Quotes

Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

The future of architecture is culture.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.