Kenneth Noland Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

Paul Allen

#3. The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky.

Heather Heffner

#4. I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

Kenneth Noland

#5. America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows ... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

Alice Walker

#6. Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

#9. I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

#11. In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

Kenneth Noland

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Infant Joy
I have no name
I am but two days old.-
What shall I call thee?
I happy am
Joy is my name,-
Sweet joy befell thee!
Pretty joy!
Sweet joy but two days old.
Sweet joy I call thee:
Thou dost smile.
I sing the while
Sweet joy befell thee.

William Blake

#15. Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.

Frank Herbert

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

#18. Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

Kenneth Noland

#19. The mindset of the people who put the shows on and those who go buy a ticket is so fundamentally different. The band themselves don't have a sense of things, and I found this out after a lot of years of pain and frustration.

Dick Latvala