Frank Gehry Quotes

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

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.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

I believe that art has incredible power.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.

Art should create an experience.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.