“All great paintings are sculptures—there's so much of the actualness about it that a great painting forces you into a visual, physical movement of yourself. That's what determines the way you experience a painting kinetically. You move closer, you sight down it, you tilt your head, you step back, you feel as though you are in it. That being in it is just as important as looking from a distance.”
Kenneth Noland, as quoted in "Conversation with Karen Wilkin," in Kenneth Noland, Karen Wilkin, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1990, p. 10