Top 9 Quotes by Franz Kline

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

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

Feelings, Paint

"Conversations with artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

Franz Kline

Life, Art, Order

Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

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.

Franz Kline

Thinking, White, People

David Anfam, Franz Kline, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.) (1994). “Franz Kline: black & white, 1950-1961”, Menil Foundation

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

Franz Kline

Finals, Tests, Emotion

"Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, p. 106, 1961.

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.

Franz Kline

Doe, Emotion, Painting

"Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

Franz Kline

Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

Franz Kline

Boston, Worry, Use

Franz Kline, Harry F. Gaugh (1979). “Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions”

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

Franz Kline

States, Terrific

Franz Kline, Fred Mitchell, Albert Boime (1977). “Franz Kline, the Early Works as Signals: Exhibition University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 14 March-18 April, 1977 and Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York 27 September - 6 November 1977”