Frank Gehry Quotes

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

Serious art is born from serious play.

Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The very desire to make the creative act understandable, to find a basis for it, is failure to comprehend it. To comprehend the creative act means to recognize that it is inexplicable and without foundation.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.

I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work.

I love to create and play, I can't stop, hahaha!