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Top 15 Lee Krasner Quotes (2025 Update)

Lee Krasner Quote: “I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.”

1. “I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.”

2. “All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.”

3. “I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don’t know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.”

4. “I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don’t know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let’s see if I can do it.”

5. “I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let’s see if I can do it.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.”

6. “I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.”

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

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.”

8. “The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “Painting, for me, when it really ‘happens,’ is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon – as say, a lettuce leaf. By ‘happens,’ I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.”

9. “Painting, for me, when it really ‘happens,’ is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon – as say, a lettuce leaf. By ‘happens,’ I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.”

10. “I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.”

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

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it’s acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that’s very acceptable.”

12. “We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it’s acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that’s very acceptable.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “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 paint. But otherwise one continued.”

13. “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 paint. But otherwise one continued.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.”

14. “One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.”

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

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “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 ten people that knew about it.”

17. “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 ten people that knew about it.”

— Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Lee Krasner

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