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 d…

- Lee Krasner

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

- Lee Krasner

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…

- Lee Krasner

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

- Lee Krasner

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…

- Lee Krasner

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

- Lee Krasner

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

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

- Lee Krasner

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…

- Lee Krasner