Franz Kline quotes

“You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.”
-- Franz Kline

Source : Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

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“People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.”
-- Franz Kline

Source : David Anfam, Franz Kline, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.) (1994). “Franz Kline: black & white, 1950-1961”, Menil Foundation

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“If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.”
-- Franz Kline

Source : Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

#Way Quotes #Painter Quotes #Not Alone Quotes

“You instinctively like what you can't do.”
-- Franz Kline

Source : Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

“I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.”
-- Franz Kline

Source : "Conversations with artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

#Feelings Quotes #Paint Quotes

“If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.”
-- Franz Kline

Source : "Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

#Doe Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Painting Quotes

“To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.”
-- Franz Kline

Source : Franz Kline, Fred Mitchell, Albert Boime (1977). “Franz Kline, the Early Works as Signals: Exhibition University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 14 March-18 April, 1977 and Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York 27 September - 6 November 1977”

#States Quotes

“The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?”
-- Franz Kline

Source : "Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, p. 106, 1961.

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“Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.”
-- Franz Kline

Source : Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”

#Boston Quotes #Worry Quotes #Use Quotes

“Order, thou eye of action.”

“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”

“The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”

“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

“Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”