Bilbao Quotes

#1. I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

David Chipperfield

#2. I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao ... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

Frank Gehry

#3. I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.

Robert Polidori

#4. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

Eduardo Chillida

#5. Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Frank Gehry

#6. God. Love. People use words all the time. Doesn't mean they agree on their meaning. It doesn't mean they've thought through what they mean when they use them.

Various

#7. When you get real big baby, remember that little old cowgirl. Waiting for you back in that red river valley.

Lana Del Rey

#8. It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.

Margery Sharp

#9. Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies.

Richard Dawkins

#10. She just got sad, okay? Unbearably sad.

Erika Swyler