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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

Topics: After Aim Art Compromised Create Decoration Illustration Live Painting Space Subjects Which Within

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A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

~Frank Stella

Topics: Cut Just Out Painting Sculpture Somewhere Stood Up

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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.

~Frank Stella

Topics: Any Art Artist Best Body Complete Eye Feel Gesture Good Hand How Large Lean Most Put Really Seems Stuff Together Totality Unless You

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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.

~Frank Stella

Topics: Art Given Life Like Me My Life Prefer Say

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What you see is what you see.

~Frank Stella

Topics: See You

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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 lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

~Frank Stella

Topics: Abstract Became Because Believed Broker Doctors Everybody Had Honestly Lawyers Make Only Paintings People Slightly Things Until Up View Wanted World World View

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

~Frank Stella

Topics: About Imitating Learns Looking Other Painters Painting

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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, 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

Topics: Actual Any Get Laying Like May Me Meat Out Painting Picture Really Something Still Technique Thing Thrill

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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 against the wall.

~Frank Stella

Topics: Abstract Against Become Best Gestures Had Obsessed Painting Up Wall Were Worried

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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.

~Frank Stella

Topics: Architecture Chaos Fully Human Need Part Personality Put Real Represent Some Turmoil You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 12th, 1936

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