“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always 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 see.” PeopleIfsWantEndsFactsValuesPaintingArgumentPaintCanvasPinsHumanisticOld Values Author:Frank Stella
“It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age.” PeopleFirstsHardAgeJobsWifeCrazyTwentiesManageMiserableHatedGood TimesHaving A Good Time Author:Frank Stella
“The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.” PeopleIfsSaidMy OwnOne ThingPaintingSourceMouthsHearingAgain And AgainSay AnythingYou Again 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
