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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 from art. 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 individuals produce.
-For my charges and illuminations I keep going back further in time. It was Pollock, Mondrian, Matisse - and I still get something there.
-Jackson, HOfmann, Rothko didn't think they were giants; they were people making a statement. But now the second generation is interested in sniffing the wind.

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