Frank Stella

“Abstraction has a special function that is still not fully understood. It's a way of representing the unrepresentable.”

“If you can have a spiritual experience in front of a Rembrandt, why not in front of a Stella?”

“What you see is what you see.”

“My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an object.”

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

“But, you know, a finished work is also a defeated work.”

“I tried to make paintings that were not just about something else, but were things in themselves.”

“The idea of a one-man show is a myth. Every work is a collaboration.”

“A painting is a flat surface with paint on it, nothing more.”

“I am not a minimalist, I am a maximalist.”

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

“Space is the one thing that you can't see. But it's the one thing you can feel.”