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  • Painter
  • 1910 - 1962
  • 11 quotes

Franz Kline, a painter (1910 - 1962), is quoted 11 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Painter, Emotion, Anguish and Forms.

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You instinctively like what you can't do.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

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

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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