Kenneth Noland Quotes

"I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Artist, Help)

"With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Artists, First, Identity)

"Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Time, First, Right)

"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."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Country, Living, Now)

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

"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
(Related: Time, Beginning)

"For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Key, Understanding)

"Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Artists, Mentors)

"Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter."
- Kenneth Noland

"Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Eye)

"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
(Related: Artist, Being, Wrong)

"I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him."
- Kenneth Noland
(Related: Wife)