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Time is what you have left.. ..you just march with it and use it the best you can.

— Frank Stella Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)

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I do think that a good pictorial idea is worth more than a lot of manual dexterity.

If we are the best, it is only fair that they imitate us.

If you don't know what Ad Reinhardt's) paintings are about, you don't know what painting is about.

Comment after Reinhardt's death (1967)

The paintings got sculptural because the forms got more complicated. I've learned to weave in and out.

Bomb: X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (2000)

The painting never changes once I've started to paint it. I work things out before-hand in the sketches.

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