Frank Gehry Quotes

It's in our nature. If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that. So, when you fill a gallery with dirt and someone comes along waving wads of bills, it's difficult not to take them because they become a tangible acknowledgement that what you've been doing actually makes sense.

You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

When art wins, everyone wins.

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The measure is the work and how you think your work is perceived. How the museums are. How you are doing.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audience, and even then, any success is quite unpredictable.

How can we say any one actor's work was better than another's?

If you do a brilliant work and if the audience don't like it, what's the point.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then I'll feel successful.

Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.