Lee Krasner

“My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle in one area than I am looking for a way to get out of it.”

“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.”

“All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier... For me, I think that is the nature of the creative process.”

“I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point.”

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

“I happened to be a woman, and I was a damn good painter. I wasn't a 'woman painter.' I was a painter.”

“Art is not peripheral, it is the center of my life.”

“With Jackson, there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness.”

“There's a rhythm to the seasons and the tides, and I can't say that it doesn't affect my work.”

“Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon.”