I always get into arguments, with people who want to retain the old values in painting — the humanistic values that they always 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. It really is an object. Any painting is an object..


In: LIFE, Vol. 64, nr. 3, 19 January 1968, p. 49

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Frank Stella Quotes

I always get into arguments, with people who want to retain the old values in painting — the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. ...

I always get into arguments, with people who want to retain the old values in painting — the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. ...

I always get into arguments, with people who want to retain the old values in painting — the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. ...

I always get into arguments, with people who want to retain the old values in painting — the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. ...