Books Quote by Lee Krasner Download Open image “I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.” — Lee Krasner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ifs Painting Thinking Trouble
I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer… — Sam Francis Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about. — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
