Frank Stella Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

  Life, Art, Giving

• You see what you know!

  Frank Stella

  Art, Knows

• 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

  Art, Goes On, World

  Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. April 01, 2000.

• But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Illustration, Space

  Frank Stella (1986). “Working Space”, p.5, Harvard University Press

• The aim of art is to create space.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Illustration, Space

  Frank Stella (1986). “Working Space”, p.5, Harvard University Press

• I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get out of art and what the best art has. It has the ability to convince you that it's present - that it's there. You could say it's authentic... but real is actually a better word, broad as it may be.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Real, May

• Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Fall, Complicated

• I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

  Frank Stella

  Art, Successful, Want

• 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.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Eye, Hands

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