Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — 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… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they… — 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… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is… — 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,… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings,… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
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 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
