A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
