Frank Gehry: Self
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Frank Gehry : I think we need- man, people, women, kids- need some kind of spiritual sustenance, and I think that if you're not willing to accept it philosophically, as a member of a particular religion, that the feelings engendered by a building can have that effect. But a lot of our buildings are lifeless; they may do everything, they say everything, they're technologically great, but they don't have any feeling. And so that's the issue for me, is how to connect with humanity, and how to make a building that moves people.
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Frank Gehry : My whole life has been involved with painting and sculpture, and music and things like that, and the first people that embraced what I was doing when I started out were artists, not the architectural community. So I felt- I mean, that became my family, and naturally, you wanted to make their place for their stuff, because that was my expertise, that could have been my contribution.
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Frank Gehry : I do know there is a parachute, before I jump. And I'm not conscious- I'm not always aware of it at the time I'm jumping, to continue the metaphor. But the parachute is that everything's been done. There is nothing new. I mean, Boromini did it, Brancusi did it, Jasper Johns did it, Rauschenberg did it. So the language of form and color and space and composition has all been done. And so that takes some of the fear out of it for me.
