Author: Frank Stella

Quotes

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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