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.
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
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
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
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.
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. - Frank Stella
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
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
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…
You see what you know! - Frank Stella
You see what you know!
The aim of art is to create space. - Frank Stella
The aim of art is to create space.
What you see is what you see. - Frank Stella
What you see is what you see.
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
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up agains…
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
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 …
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