Frank Gehry Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

  Frank Gehry

  Teacher, School, Kids

  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.

• Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

  Frank Gehry

  School, Artist, Our World

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

• When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

  Frank Gehry

  School, Cities, Ideas

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

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