Kenneth Noland Artist Quotations

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.

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

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

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

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

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

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.

That's the way I work. Usually I start by fooling with the stuff, make messes. Sometimes something comes out of it; sometimes it doesn't.

I paint my paintings directly. I almost never paint over. This maintains the attention of the picture for me, my contact with what I am doing.