“With the black ones [his 'Black Paintings'] I was interested in getting complexity without their revealing much – in the fact that there was much to see but not much showing. I wanted to show a painting that could have the dignity of not calling attention to itself. In both the blacks and the whites [paintings] there was none of the familiar aggressiveness of art that says, 'Well, here it is, whether you like it or not.”
Source: 1960's, The Bride and the Bachelors, (1962), pp. 203-204
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Quote from Abstract Expressionism, Barbara Hess, New York, Abrams, 1971, p. 29
1970s - 1980s

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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
Quote of Kline in an interview (March 1960) with David Sylvester, edited for broadcasting by the BBC first published in 'Living Arts', Spring 1963; as cited in Interviews with American Artists, David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, pp. 61-62
1960's

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
1959
Quote from a speech of Kline in the jazz club The Five Spot, as quoted in Introduction by David Anram, The Stamp of Impulse, Abstract expressionist prints, David Anram, David Acton, p. 21
1960's
Source: 1960 - 1970, Interview with David Sylvester 2. Spring 1965, p. 255
1995 and later, interview in Kirkeby’s home studio, Copenhagen (2012)