Frank Stella

Frank Stella

"I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there."
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"I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there."
Frank Stella
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"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it."
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"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life."
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"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."
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"But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live."
Frank Stella
"What you see is what you see"
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