Individual Expression

It really began with my mother taking me to see galleries

And to listen to music when I was a child.

She tried to exposed me to those kinds of things.

That was very personal,

And I think very important to me.

I still go very often.

I always go to concerts and listen to music, classical music.

I am not a scholar, but I am a fan.

I need that kind of inspiration.

I have continued to study art history on my own, wherever I go.

There certainly was not much theory.

We did not study theory.

I myself came at it from the arts,

And I was always interested in painting and sculpture.

I was different from the other architects in that way,

Although I did not realize it when I was a student.

I only realized that I was different later on my career.

by Frank Gehry