Illustration Quotes by 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 you're only…

— Frank Stella

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

— Frank Stella

The aim of art is to create space.

— Frank Stella

What you see is what you see.

— Frank Stella

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

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

— 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, to me,…

— Frank Stella

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

You see what you know!

— 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 reinvent themselves…

— 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 or better.

— 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 somebody's getting…

— 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 interested at…

— Frank Stella

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

— 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