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The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap. " It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, even more recently, they come out very fully cast and formed.

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Frank Stella

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they. . . find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. . . What you see is what you get.

Besides, Facts, People, Pin, Retain, Want
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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.

Art, Given, Giving, Life, Like

Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.

Curves, Flowing, Impact, Rectilinear, Simple, Story

You see what you know!

Art, Know, Knows, See

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.

Deal, Imitating, Important, Looks, Stress

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.

Art, Decoration, Illustration, Space
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