Lee Krasner

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking…

— Lee Krasner

All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it…

— Lee Krasner

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings,…

— Lee Krasner

The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a…

— Lee Krasner

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on…

— Lee Krasner

One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or…

— Lee Krasner

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always…

— Lee Krasner

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment…

— Lee Krasner

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

— Lee Krasner

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

— Lee Krasner

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very…

— Lee Krasner

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then…

— Lee Krasner

I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western.…

— Lee Krasner

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this…

— Lee Krasner

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or…

— Lee Krasner

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

— Lee Krasner

I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd…

— Lee Krasner

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

— Lee Krasner

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the…

— Lee Krasner

The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on…

— Lee Krasner

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful…

— Lee Krasner

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

— Lee Krasner

Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,'…

— Lee Krasner

My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

— Lee Krasner