Frank Stella Quotes - click name for biography
· I don't know how I got into sculpture. I liked its physicality, that's the only reason.
- Frank Stella
· You can't shake your own sensibility. No matter what the concept is, the artist's eye decides when it's right.. which is a notion of sensibility.
- Frank Stella
· 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
· The whole idea of making art is to be open, to be generous, and absorb the viewer and absorb yourself, to let them go into it. I have to go into all those places in order to make it work.
- Frank Stella
· The paintings got sculptural because the forms got more complicated. I've learned to weave in and out.
- Frank Stella
· I know what I want, but it's physically beyond me now. I can work on what I can handle. It's a playoff between the object and my physical limits.
- 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
· The idea that they know what minimalism is is absurd. I don't know what minimalism is!
- Frank Stella
· People say that the paintings are always big because they're striving for effect, but they're also big so that I don't trip over myself, so that I have room to work, and people can come in and be comfortable.
- Frank Stella
· Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the sixteenth century Italians.
- Frank Stella
· I hate to say this.. it's made to order. Then, I disorder it a little bit or, I should say, I reorder it. I wouldn't be so presumptuous to claim that I had the ability to disorder it. I wish I did.
- Frank Stella
· Time is what you have left.. you just march with it and use it the best you can.
- Frank Stella
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