Eastern Quote by 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 your neck…

— Lee Krasner

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

— Lee Krasner

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

— 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 place that's…

— Lee Krasner

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

— Lee Krasner

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

— Lee Krasner

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

— Lee Krasner

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

— 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 large painting…

— Lee Krasner