Frances Stark Quotes

#1. That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

Frances Stark

#2. My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

Frances Stark

#3. That's just the way I end up making meaning from the direct material in my life - I think what makes it accessible is the desire to communicate, more than anything. It does make it accessible, but that's not what motivates me.

Frances Stark

#4. I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

Frances Stark

#5. As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

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#6. I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

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#7. The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

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#8. My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

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#9. I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

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#10. Because I'm always working on something, I'm always thinking.

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#11. 'm very conscious about how the viewing situation [of the Biennale] creates a situation for the viewer who feels pressured. I don't really have any concept of who looks at my work online. I don't think it's viewed that much online.

Frances Stark