Noland Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting. They — Joe Abercrombie

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

I don't know how our story will end, but I know how it will start. — Michelle Hodkin

Stand forth, Nayman of Noland (for no longer will I follow you obliquelike through the inspired form of the third person singular and the moods and hesitensies of the deponent but address myself to you, with the empirative of my vendettative, provocative and out direct), stand forth, come boldly, jolly me, move me, zwilling though I am, to laughter in your true colours ere you be back for ever till I give you your talkingto! — James Joyce

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts. — Bill Vaughan

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

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors. — Kenneth Noland

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.

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard. — Brie Larson

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

I run because I enjoy it - not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run - not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset. — Amby Burfoot

We too need to scour the Bible to learn how God wants to be worshiped. For it doesn't matter how you and I want to praise God. It's not ultimately important whether worship makes us feel good or if the music is to our liking. True worship must always be offered on God's terms, not ours. So we need to learn how God wants to be worshiped. — Rory 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

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. — Kenneth Noland

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