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Helen Frankenthaler - From the Abstraction category:
Total abstraction was something intellectual to me. I didn't feel it; I could talk about Mondrian but it didn't occur to me to do it. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Accidents category:
There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents - and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it and do something with it. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Accidents category:
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. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Artists category:
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Blocks category:
Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Colour category:
I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Colour category:
I used to try to work from a given, made shape. But I'm less involved now with the shape as such. I'm much more apt to be surprised that pink and green within these shapes are doing something. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Desire category:
I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Difficulty category:
The making of serious painting is difficult and complicated for all serious painters. One must be oneself, whatever. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Excellence category:
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Experience category:
In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Gender category:
Looking at my paintings as if they were painted by a woman is superficial, a side issue, like looking at Klines and saying they are bohemian. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Gender category:
The question of sex will take care of itself. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Journey category:
Every canvas is a journey all its own. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Loneliness category:
The price for living the life I have - for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Materials category:
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. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Memory category:
- on painting Mountains and Sea after seeing the cliffs of Nova Scotia...
Though it was painted in a windowless loft, the memory of the landscape is in the painting, but it has also equal amounts of Cubism, Pollock, Kandinsky, Gorky. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Methodology category:
Being the person I was and am, exposed to the things I have been exposed to, I could only make my painting with the methods - and with the wrist - I have. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Painting category:
I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Possibilities category:
Anything is possible. It's all about risks, deliberate risks. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Questions category:
I often look at an old master not in terms of its subject matter, but of the placement of color and line. And, as an artist, not as a critic or a writer, I want to get at why - what's making this work? (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Questions category:
If I were doing this picture, what would I be doing? What would I be feeling? I often say I would be swiping this color, or I'm swiping the placement of these colors on the surface of my picture. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Risk category:
I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Rules category:
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. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Subject category:
My pictures are full of climates, abstract climates. They're not nature per se, but a feeling. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Technique category:
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. (Helen Frankenthaler)
Helen Frankenthaler - From the Work category:
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. (Helen Frankenthaler)
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