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I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there. ↗

— Frank Stella

#art #exalted #i #i am #image

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out. ↗

— Frank Stella

#any #get #i #laying #like

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. ↗

— Stendhal

#both #does #i #i can #love

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

Only great minds can afford a simple style. ↗

— Stendhal

#great #great minds #minds #only #simple

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water. ↗

— Stendhal

#art #come #finds #genius #hell

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ↗

— Stendhal

#hypocrisy #mathematics #vagueness

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ↗

— Stendhal

#first #historian #invent #qualification

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

#both #desire #especially #fashionable #fine

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#catcher #could #darn #fastball #handle