“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
“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
“I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there” WantArtSuccessfulLiftsExaltedPictorial Author:Frank Stella
“All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.” WantIdeasWholeFactsPaintingConfusion Book:Frank Stella in 2002 Source: Frank Stella in 2002
