Quotes by Kenneth Noland

About Kenneth Noland:

Kenneth Noland was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color Field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement. In 1977, he was honored by a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York that then traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and Ohio's Toledo Museum of Art in 1978. In 2006, Noland's Stripe Paintings were exhibited at the Tate in London.
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Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

Kenneth Noland

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

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

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

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

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

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

Kenneth Noland

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

Kenneth Noland

Author Bio

  • NameKenneth Noland
  • DescriptionAmerican artist
  • BornApril 10, 1924
  • DiedJanuary 5, 2010
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPainter