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12 quotes by Frank Stella

Frank Stella La scienza della pigrizia (The Science of Laziness) 1984, oil, enamel paint and alkyd paint on canvas, etched magnesium, aluminum and fiberglass, National Gallery of Art Washington DC Frank Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella continues to live and work in New York.
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A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

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What you see is what you see.

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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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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... →

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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... →

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Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became... →

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

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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

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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... →

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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up... →

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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... →

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I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

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