I know what I want, but it's physically beyond me now. I can work on what I can handle. It's a playoff between the object and my physical limits. - Frank Stella

I wanted something that was direct – right to you eye .. ..something you didn't have to look around – you got the whole thing right away.

The thing that struck me most was the way he stuck to the motif [in the 'Flag' and 'Target' paintings by Jasper Johns ].. ..the idea of stripes – the rhythm and the interval – the idea of repetition. I began to think a lot about repetition. [quote, 1960's]

I think I had been badly affected by ... the romance of Abstract Expressionism ... particularly as it filtered out to places like Princeton and around the country, which was the idea of the 'artist as a terrifically sensitive ever-changing, ever ambitious person', particularly [described] in magazines like Art News and Arts, which I read religiously.