Frank stella

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...

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.

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...

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

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

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.

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.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

What you see is what you see.