“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.” IfsFeelsArtBodyHandsSeemsEyeTogetherArtistStuffArt IsGesturesTotality Author: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.” WorldArtHardArtistStuffGoes OnArt World Author:Frank Stella
“I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksKindEndsEnoughWholeTogetherArtistGivenCareersKnow HowLuckyEnsemble Author:Frank Stella
“Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.” KnowsWorldWayWantArtistRight NowGet AwayDoing Right Author:Frank Stella
“The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.” MeanDoneArtistThreeCareersIntegrityScaredDozenFrankGreat ArtThree TimesGreat ArtistBeing An ArtistStella Author: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.” LifeGivingArtArtistCultureGivenPainterSculptors Author:Frank Stella
“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” PeopleWorldWantedArtistViewsPaintingDoctorsLawyerHonestlyAbstractWorld ViewBrokersAbstract Painting Author:Frank Stella
“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.” ArtistPaintingWallWorriedObsessedAbstractGestures80sMaterialityAbstract Painting Author:Frank Stella
