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Franz Kline Quotes

1910–1962 United States

Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 - May 13, 1962) was an American painter mainly associated with the Abstract Expressionist group which was centered, geographically, around New York, and temporally, in the 1940s and 1950s; but not limited to that setting. He was a close friend of Willem de Kooning.

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I think that if you use long lines, they become – what could they be? The only thing they could be is either highways or architecture or bridges.

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.

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

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Franz Kline (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.