Kenneth Noland Quotes

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

  Kenneth Noland

  Thinking, Matter, Painting

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• Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

  Kenneth Noland

  Senior, Artist, Mentor

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

  Kenneth Noland

  Firsts, First Time

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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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  Artist, Giving, Helping

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

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  Keys, Understanding

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

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  Wife, Mets, Former

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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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  Fog, Goes On, Realizing

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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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  Helen, Known, Morris

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

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  Artist, Identity, Groups

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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.

  Kenneth Noland

  Artist, Unconventional, Reason

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