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Frank Stella Quotes

Frank Stella quotes

American Artist May 12, 1936

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Frank Stella quote: "I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to..."
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
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
Frank Stella quote: "I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial..."
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there. 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 against the wall. Frank Stella
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
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
Frank Stella quote: "I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world,..."
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
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
Frank Stella quote: "One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other..."
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. Frank Stella
Frank Stella quote: "A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. Frank Stella
Frank Stella quote: "What you see is what you see."
What you see is what you see. Frank Stella

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