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You couldn't forget Pablo Pic...

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

I like real art. It's difficu...

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

I think for a lot of artists,...

I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

All I want anyone to get out ...

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

The one thing I learned is no...

The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

I get cranky real easily. So ...

I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

Up until 35 I had a slightly ...

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings

Frank Stella 37 quotes

There's a lot of difference b...

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

Making art is complicated bec...

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

One learns about painting by ...

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

Once I really started to unde...

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

Any artist can't get away fro...

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

Architecture can't fully repr...

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

Up until 35 I had a slightly ...

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

I don't like to say I have gi...

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

When I'm painting the picture...

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

No art is any good unless you...

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

But, after all, the aim of ar...

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

I don't like a lot of the stu...

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

One learns about painting by ...

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Frank Stella 37 quotes

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