Kenneth Noland Quotes

• With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity – and never a clique.

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• Usually I throw away what I don’t get right the first time.

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• The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I’ve kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I’ve done it by living in the country within commuting distance.

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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.

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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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• I’ve also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

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• I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

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• I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who’d studied with him.

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• For me context is the key – from that comes the understanding of everything.

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• Context begins with other artists – seniors and mentors.

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• Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

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• Because of this the representation I’m interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

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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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Birth:	10th April, 1924
Death:	5th January, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter

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