Franz Kline quotes
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“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 KlineSource : 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 KlineSource : 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 KlineSource : Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc
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“You instinctively like what you can't do.”
-- Franz KlineSource : Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc
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“I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.”
-- Franz KlineSource : "Conversations with artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.
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“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 KlineSource : "Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.
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“To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.”
-- Franz KlineSource : 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”
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“The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?”
-- Franz KlineSource : "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 KlineSource : Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”
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“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”
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“The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.”
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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.
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“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
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