Frank Gehry Quotes

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

One doesn't want one's identity coerced.

I am definitely an individual.

I am my own person.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.

I don't use labels a lot.

Everybody has the right to be who they choose to be.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.

I hold a jail more roomy ... than would be the whole world if I were to submit to repression.

Society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that's going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don't want to feel that.