“…there are days when Stella goes to the Metropolitan Museum. And he sits for hours looking at the Velazquezes, utterly knocked out by them and then he goes back to his studio. What he would like more than anything else is to paint like Velazquez. But what he knows is that that is an option not open to him. So he paints stripes. He wants to be Velazquez, so he paints stripes.”

-Michael Fried on Frank Stella from Rosalind Krauss’ essay “A View of Modernism.”

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Frank Stella

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