Author: Frank Stella

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

- Frank Stella

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