Kenneth Noland Quotes

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

I'm here to make sense.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

Definitions.... are never really needed, and rarely of any use

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.