#er

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. ↗

— Frank Stella

#aim #art #compromised #create #decoration

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

#given #i #life #like #me

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

— Frank Stella

#just #out #painting #sculpture #somewhere

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

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

#against #become #best #gestures #had

One can acquire everything in solitude except character. ↗

— Stendhal

#character #everything #except #solitude

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

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. ↗

— Stendhal

#loved #men #old woman #only #something

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. ↗

— Stendhal

#dodge #logic #neither #nor #science