Kenneth Noland Quotes

United States, Painter
April 10, 1924 – January, 5, 2010.

Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American Color Field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter.

We his art-friend & painter Morris Louis and Noland himself were interested in Pollock but could gain no lead from him. He was too personal. But Frankenthaler showed us a way – a way to think about and use, color..

Kenneth Noland
- Art
- Friend
- Color
Value differences in painting always cut in; color differences always go side by side. Laterally. Color differences can illustrate three dimensional form, but using color in terms of hue belongs more properly to painting than modelling with dark and light as in sculpting does.

Kenneth Noland
- Light
- Value
- Dark

One of my grandfathers was a blacksmith, and all the plumbers and carpenters and electricians, people who did things with their hands, thought of themselves as artists because they were good at doing things. They were proud of their making things.

Kenneth Noland
- People
- Good
- Proud
I believe in working every day, and not necessarily repeating one way of working. I like to make something come out of trial and error methods – fooling around with mediums and taking the chance of its not coming to everything.

Kenneth Noland
- Believe