Helen Frankenthaler Quotes - 9quotes.com

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler
I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler
One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler
The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler
The question of sex will take care of itself.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
Written by Helen Frankenthaler

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