- (Himself): I started to use the fish as an element in my work because I was angry about postmodernism. I felt that if the classical architecture, which the postmodernists are copying came from man, why not go before man and use the fish.
- (Himself): I've always enjoyed taking on strange, small projects because they're projects that nobody wants to do. They can be challenging. I enjoy taking something that's absolutely nothing and making it better and more important than it was intended to be. To this day I'll add a room to somebody's house. I find that such small projects allow me more freedom than designing a house, which is one of the most liberating architectural projects you can get. Even just a little addition can be exciting. I use it to experiment with materials and ideas.
- (Himself): I don't take myself seriously, I'm not going to change the world. I'm very serious about my work but I don't position it or feel that it is going to change the universe. There are many more important things that are going to change the universe that I have no control over, so I just try to do my best work.
- Kurt Forster: He had an aura about him of somebody who was inscrutable, perhaps from another space. Once I moved to this area, he turned out to be exactly the opposite of all the things I've said, extraordinarily precise, spontaneous, and vivid in his communication, engaged everywhere, left and right and enormously helpful to many, many younger people. You probably know that there's hardly a young, promising, talented architect in this area who hasn't, at one time or another, sharpened pencils in the Gehry office, or has had something to do with him in one way or another.