Frank Stella Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
-
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
-
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
-
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
-
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
-
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
-
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
-
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
-
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
-
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
-
I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
-
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
-
I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
-
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
-
Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
-
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
-
I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
-
I am not afraid to go to jail.
-
What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.
-
So, when the last and dreadful HourThis crumbling Pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And musick shall untune the Sky.
-
To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.
-
I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
-
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.
