Frank Stella Quotes

You see what you know!

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

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.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

The aim of art is to create space.

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.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

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

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

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

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

What you see is what you see