Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know … - Frank Stella

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I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit. . . at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.

Frank Stella

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.

Artist, Interested, Know, Want, World

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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