Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
- Frank Stella Quote

I 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 Stella Quote

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
- Frank Stella Quote

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
- Frank Stella Quote

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
- Frank Stella Quote

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
- Frank Stella Quote

What you see is what you see.
- Frank Stella Quote