They are more complex to begin with, but their organization, the way they end up being put together, isn't that different. You can't shake your own s… - Frank Stella

I always get into arguments, with people who want to retain the old values in painting — the humanistic values that they always 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. It really is an object. Any painting is an object.

Only what can be seen there [in the painting] is there.. .What you see is what you see.

The idea in being a painter is to declare an identity. Not just my identity, an identity for me, but an identity big enough for everyone to share in. Isn't that what it's all about?!