greatest regret

"That I was too old to have affairs."
- Peggy Guggenheim

inventory

"My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it."
- Peggy Guggenheim, where only 3% of her collection is exhibited at any one time

humility

"I'm very insecure. If I wasn't, I'd be cool."
- Frank Gehry, who built Bilbao for about $100 million which has generated billions for the local economy.

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

motivated to make people happy

"You have to make mistakes to grow." "Enjoy the trip to the party as much as the party."
- Frank Gehry [born 1929]

black and white

"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."

A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Frank [born 1924] travelled across post World War II America documenting his adopted country.

though he had been trained in a rigorous Swiss tradition that aspired to photographic perfectionism, Frank's free-wheeling odyssey echoed the spontaneity of Abstract Expressionist art and Beat poetry.

Like Jackson Pollock [1912-1956], he stood in the middle of the picture; he was released from the conventions of traditional picture making.

Jack Kerouac [1922-1969] described Frank's qualities as "agility, mystery, genius and secret strangeness."

  

Steel Worker

A man walks past a Richard Serra steel sculpture at the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain. Cor-Ten is an "oxidizing steel and it turns orange and then after about eight years, it turns dark brown, amber, and then holds its color." New York's Museum of Modern Art features Serra here.

"I started as a painter and I started using rubber and lead and a lot of other things and when I finally picked up a piece of the steel, I realized that the way steel had been used in the Industrial Revolution, the way it had been used for making bridges or silos or whatever, hadn't been used in sculpture."
- Richard Serra [born 1939 ]