Artist Quotes by Frank Stella

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

— Frank Stella

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

— Frank Stella

The aim of art is to create space.

— Frank Stella

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good…

— 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.

— Frank Stella

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

— Frank Stella

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

— 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…

— Frank Stella

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

— Frank Stella

The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing…

— Frank Stella

I had to find a way to paint abstractly, which is what I wanted to do. I couldn't forget Wassily Kandinsky and…

— Frank Stella

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still,…

— Frank Stella

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space…

— 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…

— Frank Stella

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,…

— Frank Stella

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and…

— Frank Stella

I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that…

— Frank Stella

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they…

— Frank Stella

As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't…

— Frank Stella

You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is…

— Frank Stella

The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to…

— Frank Stella

I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you…

— Frank Stella

I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get…

— 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 -…

— Frank Stella

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it…

— 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…

— Frank Stella