I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
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, to me,… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
