17 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

You instinctively like what you can’t do.

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.

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

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

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.