Lee Krasner Quotes

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• All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality…
• I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it…
• I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's…
• I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it,…
• As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.
• At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three…
• We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out…
• People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't…
• I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.
• I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.
• Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.
• I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
• In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
• Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the…
• One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge…
• My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing…
• My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.
• The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of…
• With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch…
• You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending…

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