You can learn from the past, but you can’t continue to be in the past; history is not a substitute for imagination.

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"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."

- Frank Gehry

Inspiration

"I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do."

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Responsibility

"You’ve got to bumble forward into the unknown."

- Frank Gehry

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"I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do."

- Frank Gehry

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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