List of Lee Krasner Quotes

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Lee Krasner
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I knew de kooning and i went to his studio so i knew about de kooning's work. but only a little handful knew about it, you know. maybe there were ten people that knew about it.
People Littles Handful
My own image of my work is that i no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. these breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them i see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
Depression Depressing Consistency
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. that is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.
Two Drawing People
In the late 30s the name pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
Names Late Pollock
We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. and to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. and then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.
Necks Kind Used
People were very affected by the war. but it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the army; then you just couldn't paint. but otherwise one continued.
War Mean Army
As i say, i as an abstract artist was active politically.
Artist Abstract Active
I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. the image wouldn't emerge, but i worked pretty regularly. i was fighting to find i knew not what, but i could no longer stay with what i had.
Fighting Years Two
I think every once in a while i feel the need to break my medium... if i have been doing a very large painting i like to drop into something in small scale. it is a challenge to go into this size. it is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.
Thinking Media Challenges
One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. they are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.
Men Squares Goes On
Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. by 'happens,' i mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.
Mean Men Painting
I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.
Thinking Doe Painting
  • Born: October 27, 1908
  • Died: June 19, 1984
  • Occupation: Artist
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