Franz Kline was an American painter known for his unique abstract expressionist style. His works are characterized by bold lines and striking contrasts in color, which have had a profound impact on 20th-century art.
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Source: Franz Kline, the Color Abstractions
“The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?”
“If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.”
Source: Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity
“You instinctively like what you can't do.”
Source: Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity
Source: Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity
“I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.”
Source: Franz Kline: black & white, 1950-1961
“To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.”
Source: 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