Kenneth Noland quotes
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“Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.”
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“Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.”
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“I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.”
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“As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.”
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“For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.”
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“I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.”
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“In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.”
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“With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.”
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“I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.”
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“Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.”
-- Kenneth Noland
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