Frank Stella Quotes - Page 2

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• As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?

  Frank Stella

  Thinking, World, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

  Frank Stella

  Real, Abstract Painting, Century

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• You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.

  Frank Stella

  Forget, Matisse, Be You

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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.

  Frank Stella

  Integrity, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 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.

  Frank Stella

  Jobs, Crazy, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting than you're making. So it's something to think about and work toward and stay focused on.

  Frank Stella

  Thinking, Annoyed, Competition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.

  Frank Stella

  Real, Mean, Hard Times

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

  Frank Stella

  Technique, Meat, Thrill

  Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”

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• 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.

  Frank Stella

  Artist, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

  Frank Stella

  Invention, Rigor, Stella

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

  Frank Stella

  Writing, Ideas, Too Much

  Source: www.wbur.org

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