"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."

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Source : Frank Stella (1986). “Working Space”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Frank Stella

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“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”
“Living simply makes loving simple.”
“If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship,”
“He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his.”
“If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes.”
“I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too uptight, you're not expressing yourself, why don't you feel freer?" I said, "Well, I don't like that stuff. It means nothing to me."”
“The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.”
“The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry”

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