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

— Franz Kline

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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.

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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