[ Brancusi ] has had more influence on my work than most architects. - Frank Gehry

I get that a lot because I've hung around with a lot of artists and I'm very close to a lot of them. I'm very involved in their work; I think a lot of my ideas have grown out of it, and that there's been some give and take.

I do think democracy has produced chaos, especially visual. A lot of people don't like it and yearn for nineteenth-century images, forgetting that the politics of those images were different than the democracy we love.

Life is chaotic, dangerous, and surprising. Buildings should reflect that.