Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.
Frank Stella
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I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
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.
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.
All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.
Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
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