Frank Gehry Quotes

I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it, you know that's what it is. It's magic.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

Creative instinct is personal.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.

Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very well find yourself alone. Even if you know how to translate what you see, maybe only ten people will be able to understand what you tell. But, if you have faith in your vision, and retell it again and again, you will start noticing that, after a time, more people will begin to catch up with you.

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.