Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Franz Kline

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Franz Kline.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Franz Kline was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, and Lee Krasner, as well as local poets, dancers, and musicians came to be known as the informal group, the New York School. Although he explored the same innovations to painting as the other artists in this group, Kline's work is distinct in itself and has been revered since the 1950s.

American - Artist | May 23, 1910 - May 13, 1962

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

Franz Kline

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Franz Kline

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

Franz Kline

You instinctively like what you can't do.

Franz Kline

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.

Franz Kline

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.

Franz Kline

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

Franz Kline

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

Franz Kline

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.

Franz Kline

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

Franz Kline

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.

Franz Kline

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Franz Kline

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