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

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 pain…

- Frank Stella

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

- Frank Stella

You see what you know!

- Frank Stella

What you see is what you see.

- Frank Stella

The aim of art is to create space.

- Frank Stella

Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrativ…

- Frank Stella

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up agains…

- Frank Stella

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 …

- Frank Stella