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15 quotes by Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the abstract expressionism movement.
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at... →

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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... →

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

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

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As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

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

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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... →

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I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were... →

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The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that... →

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My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

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People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't... →

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The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how... →

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Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and... →

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