Kenneth Noland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Senior #Artist #Mentor
Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Firsts #First Time
I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Artist #Giving #Helping
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.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Fog #Goes On #Realizing
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Keys #Understanding
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Wife #Mets #Former
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Helen #Morris
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Artist #Identity #Groups
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
-- Kenneth Noland

#Thinking #Matter #Painting
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

#Artist #Unconventional #Reason

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