Noland Quotes

#1. 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

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

Kenneth Noland

#3. I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

Steve Cropper

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

#7. You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.

Kelly Reilly

#8. Yet the notion that you're paid what you're "worth" is by now so deeply ingrained in the public consciousness that many who earn very little assume it's their own fault.

Robert B. Reich

#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. Finish the damn book. Nothing else matters. Stop second guessing yourself and write it through to the end. You don't know what you have until you've finished it. You don't know how to fix it until it's all down on the page.

Lauren Beukes

#12. 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

#13. But familiarity is just an illusion. It actually tricks me into thinking I know more than I do, that I mean more to him than I do. I

Nina G. Jones

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

Kenneth Noland

#15. 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

#16. I knew they would find me. I'm glowing in the moonlight.My darkness was too bright to hide forever. They'll find all of us eventually. They play the odds and they're up a thousand to one.

Jeyn Roberts

#17. I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

Danny DeVito

#18. I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people.

Tess Gerritsen

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

#21. Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street.

Ken Bruen

#22. Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

Robert Higgs

#23. So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.

William Broyles Jr.

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

Kenneth Noland

#25. I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.

Gene Pitney