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Frank Stella Quotes
American
-
Artist
Born:
May 12
, 1936
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.
Frank Stella
Best
,
Artist
,
Feel
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
Frank Stella
Painting
,
Cut
,
Stood
What you see is what you see.
Frank Stella
See
,
You
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
Art
,
My Life
,
Given
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
Art
,
Aim
,
Which
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.
Frank Stella
Architecture
,
Chaos
,
Some
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 lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
Frank Stella
Everybody
,
Became
,
Slightly
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
Frank Stella
Painting
,
Other
,
Learns
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
Frank Stella
Art
,
Want
,
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, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
Frank Stella
May
,
Still
,
Actual
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
Frank Stella
Against
,
Obsessed
,
Painterly
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.
Frank Stella
Art
,
Like
,
Goes
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