Franz Kline Quotes

#1. Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

David Amram

#2. I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#3. I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

Franz Kline

#4. I'm sorry. No." Her mouth continued to move, too fast, pouring out a stream of
explanation and apology.
Jim didn't need to understand all the words. "Sorry, sorry, sorry, but no," they all said.

Bonnie Dee

#5. Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Franz Kline

#6. Little wonder I am celebrated by in-flight magazines everywhere as 'The Richard Branson of the Dark Ages

Tom Doig

#7. 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.

Franz Kline

#8. Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

Billy Connolly

#9. You instinctively like what you can't do.

Franz Kline

#10. A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

James Anthony Froude

#11. To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

Franz Kline

#12. People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

Franz Kline

#13. Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

Ellsworth Kelly

#14. The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?

Franz Kline

#15. If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

Franz Kline

#16. I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

Leslie Caron

#17. The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Franz Kline

#18. If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Franz Kline