When Gehry was starting out, he told interviewer Gail Eichenthal, he surrounded himself by artists more than architects, people like Jasper Johns, whose sense of freedom and lack of philosophy he found refreshing.

盖里告诉采访者盖尔·艾森塔尔，当盖里刚起步时，他身边的艺术家比建筑师多，比如贾斯帕·琼斯，他觉得贾斯帕的自由感和缺乏哲学精神令人耳目一新。

Hoping to reinvent himself, he pivoted his career in illustration into the fine art scene, fascinated by the newly emerging Pop Art movement led by the likes of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

为了重塑自己，他将插画事业转向了美术界，对贾斯珀·约翰斯和罗伯特·劳森伯格等人领导的新兴波普艺术运动着迷 。