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LEE KRASNER

DECEMBER 14, 1977

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Hofmann and Pollock conversation:
Hofmann:  You don't work from nature, you work [[strikethrough]] from art: [[/strikethrough]] by heart. That's no good. You will repeat yourself.
Pollock:  I am nature.

New York Art Scene:

-The art scene today has never been so wide open. No one turns anything down. In my time there were specifics.
-Its marvellous to have a climate but an individual [[strikethrough]] produce, [[/strikethrough]] opens the door.
-For my [[strikethrough]] charges [[/strikethrough]] kicks and illuminations I keep going back further in time. 
It is Book of Kells now;
It was Pollock, Mondrian, Matisse - and I still get something there.
-[[strikethrough]] Jackson [[/strikethrough]] Pollock, Hofmann, Rothko didn't think [[strikethrough]] they were [[/strikethrough]] of themselves as giants; they were people making a statement. But now the [[strikethrough]] second [[/strikethrough]] following generations are [[strikethrough]] so interested in [[/strikethrough]] sniffing the wind.

Painting development:
-Painting has to go through a natural state of influence. [[strikethrough]] And [[/strikethrough]] before [[strikethrough]] you reach a point where [[/strikethrough]] you identify yourself.
-[[strikethrough]] I have hope and I am alive. [[/strikethrough]] I don't keep in touch [[strikethrough]] because I have to stay in the studio. [[/strikethrough]] as much as I used to. I guard my studio time more carefully now. When I was young I allowed myself less [[strikethrough]] concentrated time. One has to really mark time. [[/strikethrough]]
-An artist [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] absorbs like a sponge. When you are working you are open and allow it to come [[strikethrough]] and it is you and real contact. You don't paint from any part of your anatomy. This is how I deal with it. [[/strikethrough]]