"I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get."

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Source : "Questions to Stella and Judd". Interview with Bruce Glaser, www.artnews.com. September 1966.

Frank Stella

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“Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.”
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

Source : Charles Mackay (1841). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions”, p.3
“This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.”

Source : Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books
“He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.”
“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees”
“Money does not guarantee success.”
“I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.”
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”

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