Lee Krasner Quotes

Lee Krasner — American Artist born on October 28, 1908, died on June 19, 1984

Lenore Krassner, known professionally as Lee Krasner, was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. She is one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art... (wikipedia)

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.

Lee Krasner Quotes

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