"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."

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

Franz Kline

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“I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.”
“I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.”
“The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this means, and by all other means, he should endeavor to make his first important discovery: he should discover his likes and dislikes, his taste, his own line.”
“Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
“I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?”

Source : "Artists on Art: From the 14th to the 20th Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater, p. 453, 1972.
“I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.”
“I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.”

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