Frank Gehry Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, People, Schedules

  Interview with Alex Hoyt, www.theatlantic.com. May 2011.

• In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Art, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Children, Doe

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Community, Library

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Home, Unique

• It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Children, Architecture

  Source: amandajbailey.wordpress.com

• We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Civilization, Literature

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Mean, Perfect

  "Frank Gehry Modern Master". Interview With Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. February 15, 1998.

• Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, School, Should

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

• When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Children, Struggle

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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