Frank Gehry Quotes

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring when they hear it.

You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted.

Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really. This has always been about putting the best possible version of the song in the fans hands. It was like selling an artist's painting before he had finished it.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

For me going solo meant freedom to collaborate and do whatever I feel I'm good at doing. For me it was really not ever expanding as an artist, developing everything from my songwriting to my singing to my mission statement to my vision. I've been so inspired by all the creative freedom that it brings that I have no complaints.