Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

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• Kenneth Noland:

  For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

• Kenneth Noland:

  I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

• Kenneth Noland:

  I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

• Kenneth Noland:

  I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

• Kenneth Noland:

  In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much kn

• Kenneth Noland:

  Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wi

• Kenneth Noland:

  The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that

• Kenneth Noland:

  Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

• Kenneth Noland:

  With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

• Chuck Connors:

  I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.