One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
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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
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
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
Frank Stella
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get.
Frank Stella
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
Frank Stella
What you see is what you see.
Frank Stella
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