Frank Gehry Quotes

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

Habit is a great deadener.

I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

I should not mind anything at all.

A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?