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Frank Stella
Frank Stella
American Artist
Born: May 12, 1936
Art Best Me Painting World You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
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
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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 painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out. Frank Stella
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What you see is what you see. Frank Stella
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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. Frank Stella
Best Become Painting Worried Had Abstract Obsessed Were Up Wall Gestures Against Painterly
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. Frank Stella
People World Doctors Honestly Everybody Slightly Broker Only Lawyers Had Abstract Until Make Became Because Up Wanted Skewed View Paintings Believed Things World View

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