Best quotes by Frank Stella on Art

Checkout quotes by Frank Stella on Art

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