Expressionism Quotes by Franz Kline

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

— Franz Kline

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product…

— Franz Kline

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

— Franz Kline

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well…

— Franz Kline

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

— Franz Kline

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

— Franz Kline

You instinctively like what you can't do.

— Franz Kline

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use…

— Franz Kline

“She looked like, if you bit her, milk and honey would flow from her.”

— Franz Kline

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

— Franz Kline

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

— Franz Kline