57 Quotes by 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.

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

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.