The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.
Frank StellaYou couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.
Frank StellaI don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
Frank StellaI don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
Frank StellaI think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.
Frank Stella