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Frank Stella Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.



What you see is what you see.

What you see is what you see.



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.

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.



You see what you know!

You see what you know!



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.

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.



All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.



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.

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.



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

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



The aim of art is to create space.

The aim of art is to create space.



I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.





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Something not from earth, ” Jean Luc said. The setup was too perfect. Misha looked at me, and I sighed, dreading what he would be unable to stop himself from saying next. “Live long and prosper.

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Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.



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Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.



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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.



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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.



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What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.



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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.




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