Franz Kline in his artist quotes on painting & life in America;- free resource, American art history

Franz Kline in quotes - the artist on his abstract painting art and his life in the New York School in the United States - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history
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Franz Kline’s artist quotes frequently describe his act of painting as a situation , and the first strokes of paint on the canvas as the beginning of the situation. When painting, he tried to rid his mind of everything and attack it completely from that situation. The real criterion for him was: ‘…does the painter’s emotion come across?’ Kline’s art looks spontaneous in gesture, but prior to many of his paintings were his small sketches on paper - and rather detailed…

Kline felt himself at home in the artistic scene in New York, in America of the 1940-50’s, with its free jazz, searching American artists friends and its free space to create art in an unpredictable manner. Kline stated: ‘The difference is that we (the painters of Abstract Expressionism in the U.S.) don’t begin with a definite sense of procedure. It’s free association from the start to the finished state…’
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Some selected artist-quotes of American artist Franz Kline - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’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.’ - quote of Franz Kline, as cited in: ‘Conversations With Artists’, Selden Rodman, 1957

• ’You don’t paint the way someone, by observing his life, thinks you have to paint, you paint the way you have to in order to give. That’s life itself… …it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.’ - Kline’s quote, from: ‘Evergreen Review’, vol. II, (no 6) 1958, p. 11-15

• ’What I try to do is to create the painting so that the overall thing has the particular emotion; not just the forms in it… …in other words, there’s a particular static or heavy form that can have a look to it, an experience that translated through the form; so then it does have a mood’ - quote of Franz Kline, from: ‘Living Art’, David Sylvester, 1963
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  selection of free art-resources on American artist Franz Kline:

  • on Wikipedia you find biographical notes on Franz Kline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kline
  • for more quotes of and about Franz Kline, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franz_Kline
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]