Abstract Quote by Frank Stella Download Open image “Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.” — Frank Stella ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstract Abstract painting Century Painting Real
You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just blows your… — Anh Do Copy Share Image
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack.… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is… — Freydoon Rassouli Copy Share Image
“There have been, of course, many other insatiable polymaths, and even the Renaissance produced other Renaissance Men. But none painted the Mona Lisa, much… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“Like it!” I exclaimed. “It is lovely — wonderful! It is worthy to rank with the finest Italian masterpieces.” “Oh, no!” remonstrated Zara; “no,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators — Arthur Rackham and Edmund… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they… — Hans Rookmaaker 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
